HYDERABAD: In an about-turn to the engineering fee row, the AP high court on Friday directed the Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC) to fix the admission fee at Rs 50,200 for all those colleges which have not given any consent affidavits to the committee for fixing this year's fee.
While dealing with a petition filed by the AP Private Engineering Colleges Managements Association which termed the decision of the AFRC to fix the fee at Rs 35,000 as arbitrary, Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy passed this interim order. There are 720 engineering colleges in the private sector in AP.
For 74 colleges which are seeking a hike in the fee structure, the state would notify the new fee structure on Saturday. Since 481 colleges had accepted Rs 35,000 fee fixed by the AFRC and gave a written undertaking to the authorities concerned, the court order would not apply to them.
It is mainly those colleges which did not hand over any affidavits to the state or court that would benefit from Friday's order.
The college managements contended that it was arbitrary to reduce the fee from the existing Rs 50,000 to Rs 35,000. The judge agreed with their contention and passed the interim order.
Source : TOI
While dealing with a petition filed by the AP Private Engineering Colleges Managements Association which termed the decision of the AFRC to fix the fee at Rs 35,000 as arbitrary, Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy passed this interim order. There are 720 engineering colleges in the private sector in AP.
For 74 colleges which are seeking a hike in the fee structure, the state would notify the new fee structure on Saturday. Since 481 colleges had accepted Rs 35,000 fee fixed by the AFRC and gave a written undertaking to the authorities concerned, the court order would not apply to them.
It is mainly those colleges which did not hand over any affidavits to the state or court that would benefit from Friday's order.
The college managements contended that it was arbitrary to reduce the fee from the existing Rs 50,000 to Rs 35,000. The judge agreed with their contention and passed the interim order.
Source : TOI
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