Bangalore, Apr 17: With no solution in sight on sharing of seats and fixing of fee structure for professional courses, the crucial and final meeting between Karnataka government and private college managements will take place here today. The major bone of contention between the government and the unaided private professional college managements was fixing of fee structure, Minister for Higher Education Dr G Parameshwara told reporters yesterday.
While managements of engineering colleges have agreed to surrender 50 per cent of seats to the government, unanimity regarding sharing of medical and dental course seats was yet to emerge, he said. The government was in a predicament on the issue of fixing of fee structure since the private college managements' demand for about Rs two to three lakh annual fee per student would cause problems for poor students, Parameshwara said.
Hitherto, poor students selected for admission into medical and dental courses on merit basis through CET (Common Entrance Test) were paying Rs 9,000 as annual fee. In the light of the Supreme Court verdict, which has ruled that there should be uniform fee structure and the government should not interfere in admission process, the state was not in a position to do anything on these issues, he said.
Parameshwara said the government was contemplating to issue an order on the basis of Education Act 1984 and abolition of Capitation Fee Act. Bureau Report