With the Supreme Court dismissing the plea for differential fee in engineering colleges, the state government on Friday constituted a committee to study the fee reimbursement and hike issue thoroughly and recommend proper action. This will mean further delay in engineering admissions, the counselling for which is supposed to commence on Aug 6. Engineering aspirants have already lost four months.
The state government will take a final decision on fee hike and also reimbursement of fee after getting the expert committee report, which it expects in a week.
The committee, which has been asked to recommend various options available with the government for providing affordable education with high standards, will be headed by Prof P Jayaprakash Rao, chairman of the AP State Council of Higher Education.
The SC has dismissed the petitions filed by the AFRC (fee regulation committee), Andhra Pradesh in 2011 seeking certain clarifications on the fixation of differential/ common fees for 2012- 13 in respect of unaided professional colleges in Andhra Pradesh.
Officials said, it has become necessary to constitute a ‘Committee of Experts’ to analyse the implications arising from the dismissal of the petition on the present scheme of reimbursement of tuition fees and recommendations on various options.
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