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Uniform engg fee structure before next academic year

CHENNAI: A country-wide uniform fee structure for engineering degree programmes is likely to be announced ahead of the new academic year with the
AICTE-appointed Justice Ranganath Mishra committee expected to submit its report within the next two months.

‘The committee constituted last year has held consultations with stakeholders across the country. It is expected to submit its report in a couple of months,’ All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman R A Yadav announced here on Saturday. While finalising the fees, the committee would take into account two aspects the students affordability and the financial viability of the colleges.

‘As much as 85% of the engineering colleges are in private hands. The college managements have issues such as implementation of the sixth pay commission recommendations and maintaining quality and infrastructure. As for the students, higher education has to be affordable,’ Yadav said while inaugurating a two-day national seminar on Technical Teachers Quality Improvement organised by the Consortium of Self Financing Professional, Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu.

The AICTE has also constituted two boards one for engineering and architecture education and the other for management, hotel management and catering institutions and pharmaceutical colleges which would soon unveil an agenda for integration of the industry and academia, and upgrading of qualification of existing faculty.

According to Yadav, taking into account the current scenario, the AICTE was considering revising the norms pertaining to requirement of land, built-up area, laboratories and faculty in colleges. ‘The norms will be pragmatic, acceptable, realistic and feasible,’ he assured.

Earlier the consortium president Jeppiaar expressed apprehension about attempts at ‘policing academics’, wherein affiliating universities imposed stringent norms and standards than what was prescribed by the approving body AICTE. ‘The AICTE had announced that in certain engineering branches where there was an acute shortage of qualified teaching manpower, the colleges would be spared from hunting for PhD holders and professors. However, the affiliating universities are awarding higher marks during inspection only if colleges had professors and PhD holders. Policing in academics will not work. The teacher-pupil ratio in engineering colleges must be relaxed to 1:20 instead of 1:15,’ he urged.

However, Tamil Nadu higher education principal secretary K Ganesan pointed out that monitoring and regulations by an affiliating university should not be misconstrued as police raj . ‘Sitting in Delhi AICTE officials may not be able to micro-manage the functioning of institutions here. Therefore, the affiliating universities have to monitor and award marks to the institutions to help students make an informed decision.’

Ganesan made it clear that if colleges were unable to find qualified faculty, they must stop establishing new colleges. ‘There is no induction training for fresh graduates who join as teachers. Unfortunately in India you do not have a certification body for technical teachers. Teachers with no exposure to the world cannot create employable graduates,’ he explained.