Fee fixation body submits report

Hyderabad: The contentious engineering fee fixation issue

has been resolved. The Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee on Wednesday submitted its report to the state government giving its recommendations on fee fixation in different slabs for different colleges. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy will take a final call on these recommendations in a couple of days based on which a college-wise fee list will be released by the department of higher education. This will enable officials to commence the first phase of Eamcet engineering counselling in a week. Eamcet results were announced on June 5 and students have been desperately waiting for the

counselling to begin. Interestingly, the AFRC has rec

ommended “adhoc fees” in about 214 colleges which did not submit financial details to

AFRC on their income and expenditure. However, it has recommended reduction of fees to 30,000 in these col

` leges. Last year, the prescribed fee was 35,000 with the con

` dition that these colleges must submit all the financial details

within three months. The fees in the remaining colleges has been fixed ranging

from 35,000 to 1.20 lakh

` ` based on their financial statements.