Sunday, April 1, 2018

Madras varsity set to charge colleges ₹2K per student to digitise student records

Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com  01.04.2018

Chennai : A move by the University of Madras to collect an administrative fee from autonomous affiliated colleges for digitisation and preserving records of students on Saturday was met with stringent opposition from some senate members representing affiliated colleges.

During its senate meeting, the university proposed to ratify a syndicate decision to collect ₹600 per year per student for undergraduate students, ₹1,000 for postgraduate and ₹2,000 for MPhil students of self-financing and aided autonomous colleges as administrative fees. It proposed half the fee for autonomous state-run colleges.

Using these funds, the university proposes to provide a digi-locker facility. All student documents such as degree certificates and mark sheets from 2005 onwards will be digitised and will be available at the click of a button. Currently, students have to wade through red tape for copies of these documents.

RKM Vivekananda College professor J Gandhiraj said the fee was too high and requested the university to reduce it and make it a one-time payment. “We were told that this fee was fixed because the university’s financial position is bad,” he said.

However, vice-chancellor P Duraisamy said the fee had nothing to do with the university’s financial position. “The university collects ₹250 for issuing a degree certificate. We have been subsidising the autonomous colleges by using funds from non-autonomous colleges. While we collect only ₹65 per paper for examinations, autonomous colleges collect ₹150. UGC also gives funds to autonomous colleges for conducting examinations,” he said, justifying the levy. An MOU has been signed with National Academic Depository for the purpose, he added.

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