The Hindu Business Line : AICTE may fix ceiling on technical education fees

THE All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body regulating technical education, plans to establish ceilings on the fees chargeable by technical education institutions in the country.

The ceilings would at best serve as a guidepost for such institutions and not be binding on them, according to the Chairman of AICTE, Dr R. Natarajan.

Technical education includes education on engineering, management, pharmacy and architecture.

"We will analyse the decisions arising from the recommendations of the committees appointed at the level of the State Governments before issuing our guidelines on the fees," Dr Natarajan told newspersons on the sidelines of a national seminar on `Institutional Governance', organised by FORE School of Management along with AICTE.

As fallout of a Supreme Court decision, two committees have been appointed in each State — one to look at fee structure and the other is for admission procedure in the technical education institutions. The committees are expected to submit their reports before the beginning of the ensuing academic year.

Dr Natarajan also said plans are afoot to advance the benchmark year for obtaining mandatory accreditation from AICTE. Currently, technical education institutions established prior to 1984 have to necessarily obtain accreditation from AICTE. "We are planning to advance this to say 1994, so that all technical education institutions established prior to this year get necessarily accredited with AICTE," he said.

When asked whether some form of constitutional guarantee for higher education would be an appropriate solution for tackling the imbroglio such as the one on IIM fees, Dr Natarajan told Business Line that he was not "competent to answer such a question".

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