Proposal to hike IIT course fee by 100 per cent

October 03, 2015 09:43

ABP LIVE reports: The Indian Institutes of Technology will discuss a proposal to raise their tuition fee to a level where it covers their entire running costs, lowering their dependence on government funds.

The fee could more than double if the IIT Council accepts the suggestion at its Tuesday meeting, but sources clarified that most of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students would be unaffected.

These 18 premier engineering schools now charge undergraduate students an annual tuition fee of Rs 90,000. A committee headed by scientist Anil Kakodkar had in 2011 pegged the institutes' operational costs per student at between Rs 2.25 lakh and Rs 2.5 lakh.

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