Who will subsidise the meritorious student? This has turned out to be the million-dollar question between the Government of Karnataka and private college managements of professional colleges. The government has called for a meeting with private colleges on February 18 and asked private colleges to come up with their proposal to fund meritorious students. Officials said that the state was gearing up to implement the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006. The Act states that a student has to pay fee depending on the college they join.
The big question haunting the government is what will happen to the meritorious student as top colleges may charge a higher fee (as colleges with better infrastructure are allowed to charge a higher). So the government has asked private colleges to find out a mechanism to volunteer funds for such students.
The catch here is that the one-man committee that decides the fee structure has not yet completed these formalities making it difficult for colleges to ascertain their commitment.
Panduranga Setty of Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association said, "The state government wants us to come up with a mechanism wherein we volunteer to fund meritorious students. Since we are yet to know how much fee to charge regular students, we can't commit whether we can fund meritorious students as of now. I don't think the February 18 meeting will be a final one. We may have to sit for many more meetings to finalise this issue."
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The big question haunting the government is what will happen to the meritorious student as top colleges may charge a higher fee (as colleges with better infrastructure are allowed to charge a higher). So the government has asked private colleges to find out a mechanism to volunteer funds for such students.
The catch here is that the one-man committee that decides the fee structure has not yet completed these formalities making it difficult for colleges to ascertain their commitment.
Panduranga Setty of Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association said, "The state government wants us to come up with a mechanism wherein we volunteer to fund meritorious students. Since we are yet to know how much fee to charge regular students, we can't commit whether we can fund meritorious students as of now. I don't think the February 18 meeting will be a final one. We may have to sit for many more meetings to finalise this issue."
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Source : Bangalore mirror
