By Sridhar VivanSridhar Vivan, Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Jan 4, 2014, 01.00 AM IST
The CET meeting between state government officials and private college managements remained inconclusive on Friday. In a meeting attended by higher education minister, RV Deshpande, and medical education minister, Dr Sharan Prakash Patil, apart from other government officials, the government reportedly told private college managements that although the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act, 2006 was discussed during the legislative session, the government needed more time to implement the Act since the members who had framed the bill in 2006 are now opposing its roll out. Government representatives requested private college managements to reach a consensual agreement this year and that it will implement the Act next year.
However, private college managements stuck to their stand that they were ready to part with seats only if the government agreed to reimburse full costs. "All the colleges have already submitted their list of cost per student to the committee constituted by the government. It is now for the government to decide. We cannot settle for anything less since it will be detrimental to our existence," M K Panduranga Setty, chief, Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association (KUPECA), told BM.
Private college managements emphatically stated that they cannot agree to the old fee structure. "There is a case on the issue pending in the Supreme Court. Moreover, the Supreme Court has not ratified the consensual agreement for the last two years. Unless, these issues are sorted out, we do not want to go ahead," said members during the meeting. Government representatives said that they would call for another meeting to discuss the issue further.
Mirror had reported on Friday how the fee structure had turned out to be a tough nut for this year's CET (Conundrum to solve ahead of LS polls). While private college managements are asking for a fee per student ranging from Rs 1.2 lakh to Rs 2.38 lakh per year, the government wanted to work around last year's engineering fee structure that was around Rs 42,000.
Students meanwhile are still in the lurch. "There is no clarity on CET as every private college is coming up with their own entrance tests. If we go on writing multiple tests, then we end up only writing tests and nothing else," said Anoop S, an engineering aspirant
The CET meeting between state government officials and private college managements remained inconclusive on Friday. In a meeting attended by higher education minister, RV Deshpande, and medical education minister, Dr Sharan Prakash Patil, apart from other government officials, the government reportedly told private college managements that although the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act, 2006 was discussed during the legislative session, the government needed more time to implement the Act since the members who had framed the bill in 2006 are now opposing its roll out. Government representatives requested private college managements to reach a consensual agreement this year and that it will implement the Act next year.
However, private college managements stuck to their stand that they were ready to part with seats only if the government agreed to reimburse full costs. "All the colleges have already submitted their list of cost per student to the committee constituted by the government. It is now for the government to decide. We cannot settle for anything less since it will be detrimental to our existence," M K Panduranga Setty, chief, Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges Association (KUPECA), told BM.
Private college managements emphatically stated that they cannot agree to the old fee structure. "There is a case on the issue pending in the Supreme Court. Moreover, the Supreme Court has not ratified the consensual agreement for the last two years. Unless, these issues are sorted out, we do not want to go ahead," said members during the meeting. Government representatives said that they would call for another meeting to discuss the issue further.
Mirror had reported on Friday how the fee structure had turned out to be a tough nut for this year's CET (Conundrum to solve ahead of LS polls). While private college managements are asking for a fee per student ranging from Rs 1.2 lakh to Rs 2.38 lakh per year, the government wanted to work around last year's engineering fee structure that was around Rs 42,000.
Students meanwhile are still in the lurch. "There is no clarity on CET as every private college is coming up with their own entrance tests. If we go on writing multiple tests, then we end up only writing tests and nothing else," said Anoop S, an engineering aspirant
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