Anna University to double tuition fee after 20 years
A Ragu Raman@timesgroup.com
Chennai:10.05.2019
From the coming academic year, students joining Anna University’s four campuses may have to pay ₹20,000 as tuition fee instead of the existing ₹8,500.
The university decided to increase the tuition fees after nearly two decades to address the need for funds to meet rising expenditure in terms of salaries to employees, cost of infrastructure for courses and purchase of equipment for labs. The fees were last raised in 1999, and since then the university has implemented two pay commission awards.
“For any institution, fee hike is inevitable. The fees in IITs were ₹25,000 a few years ago, now they have been increased to more than ₹1 lakh,” pointed out VC M K Surappa. “Despite the proposed increase, the tuition fees were still lower than that of other technical institutions and central government institutions,” an official from the university said. He pointed out that central institutions, which received full grant from the Union government, had been increasing tuition fees every five years citing inflation.
‘Univ has to bear cost of water, power, lab facilities’
University officials said they were trying to meet the rising expenditure on water, electricity, security and lab facilities. As of now, the state government has given the salary grant (block grant) to the university till 2012-13. Citing the university’s financial position and funds received from various agencies, the state government has stopped the grant.
But now, the higher education department is taking a different view and has decided to support the premier technical university. The university has also initiated steps to seek the block grant from the state government again. An official said the university also needed to bear the cost of establishing new courses at Tirunelveli, Coimbatore and Madurai regional campuses. “We have to meet the salaries of the faculty, improve infrastructure and equipment. It is unusual that the fees were not hiked in the past 20 years,” Surappa said adding that the fee hike was done rationally by comparing with other institutions and universities. The decision was approved by the University’s syndicate earlier.
A Ragu Raman@timesgroup.com
Chennai:10.05.2019
From the coming academic year, students joining Anna University’s four campuses may have to pay ₹20,000 as tuition fee instead of the existing ₹8,500.
The university decided to increase the tuition fees after nearly two decades to address the need for funds to meet rising expenditure in terms of salaries to employees, cost of infrastructure for courses and purchase of equipment for labs. The fees were last raised in 1999, and since then the university has implemented two pay commission awards.
“For any institution, fee hike is inevitable. The fees in IITs were ₹25,000 a few years ago, now they have been increased to more than ₹1 lakh,” pointed out VC M K Surappa. “Despite the proposed increase, the tuition fees were still lower than that of other technical institutions and central government institutions,” an official from the university said. He pointed out that central institutions, which received full grant from the Union government, had been increasing tuition fees every five years citing inflation.
‘Univ has to bear cost of water, power, lab facilities’
University officials said they were trying to meet the rising expenditure on water, electricity, security and lab facilities. As of now, the state government has given the salary grant (block grant) to the university till 2012-13. Citing the university’s financial position and funds received from various agencies, the state government has stopped the grant.
But now, the higher education department is taking a different view and has decided to support the premier technical university. The university has also initiated steps to seek the block grant from the state government again. An official said the university also needed to bear the cost of establishing new courses at Tirunelveli, Coimbatore and Madurai regional campuses. “We have to meet the salaries of the faculty, improve infrastructure and equipment. It is unusual that the fees were not hiked in the past 20 years,” Surappa said adding that the fee hike was done rationally by comparing with other institutions and universities. The decision was approved by the University’s syndicate earlier.
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