Affiliation fee to go up
CHENNAI, OCTOBER 18, 2018 00:00 IST
The University of Madras is considering an amendment to its statute regarding affiliation fee for courses offered by affiliated colleges.
The issue was one of the 20 points of discussion that was tabled at the Syndicate meeting held on Wednesday.
The university currently charges an affiliation fee from each college for each course that is offered. It collects Rs. 25,000 as a one-time course affiliation fee. The university sends its officials for inspection of the facilities and infrastructure in the college and charges a fee. The Local Fund Audit had, earlier this year, raised objections to the one-time collection and had advised the varsity to inspect the college every year and charge the affiliation fee.
“We collect only one time but the Local Fund Audit has said that we should have collected every year. To avoid audit objection we are bringing amendments to the statutes to collect affiliation fee for first year and continuation of affiliation fee in the second and third year for undergraduate programmes and the second year for postgraduate programmes,” said a member.
The affiliation fee will be levied for each batch, the member said.
“We will go for inspection to the college when the first batch moves to the second year and inspect the institution again. In the case of undergraduate courses the continuous affiliation inspection would be for three years in a row and in the case of postgraduate courses it would be for two years. Thus a college will pay Rs. 75,000 for a UG course and Rs. 50,000 for a PG course towards affiliation,” the member explained.
CHENNAI, OCTOBER 18, 2018 00:00 IST
The University of Madras is considering an amendment to its statute regarding affiliation fee for courses offered by affiliated colleges.
The issue was one of the 20 points of discussion that was tabled at the Syndicate meeting held on Wednesday.
The university currently charges an affiliation fee from each college for each course that is offered. It collects Rs. 25,000 as a one-time course affiliation fee. The university sends its officials for inspection of the facilities and infrastructure in the college and charges a fee. The Local Fund Audit had, earlier this year, raised objections to the one-time collection and had advised the varsity to inspect the college every year and charge the affiliation fee.
“We collect only one time but the Local Fund Audit has said that we should have collected every year. To avoid audit objection we are bringing amendments to the statutes to collect affiliation fee for first year and continuation of affiliation fee in the second and third year for undergraduate programmes and the second year for postgraduate programmes,” said a member.
The affiliation fee will be levied for each batch, the member said.
“We will go for inspection to the college when the first batch moves to the second year and inspect the institution again. In the case of undergraduate courses the continuous affiliation inspection would be for three years in a row and in the case of postgraduate courses it would be for two years. Thus a college will pay Rs. 75,000 for a UG course and Rs. 50,000 for a PG course towards affiliation,” the member explained.
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