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  • There shall be uniform fee for all the students- A.P High Court.

    A Division Bench of the AP High Court comprising Justice Goda Raghu Ram and Justice P. Durga Prasad quashed the notifications issued by the State government in August 2010 pertaining to the fee to be paid by students in private engineering colleges.

    The Bench said that there shall be uniform fee for all the students in a college except for the NRI quota. The judgment covers unaided colleges offering engineering, MBA, MCA, and Pharmacy courses.

    They said that by fixing separate fee for A and B categories, one set of students were forced to subsidise the other, which was constitutionally impermissible.

    At present, the fee for A category seats in private engineering college is Rs.30,000 and nearly Rs.90,000 for B category. This, the Bench said, amounted to cross subsidy and was unconstitutional. The Bench permitted the AFRC to recommend and the State government to notify a higher fee for students admitted into 15 per cent quota for NRIs. This fee shall be deposited in a separate bank account to be employed for the benefit of students from economically weaker sections.

    The government is to notify the fee structure in March of the preceding academic year. The court directed the State to notify the fee structure proposals for academic years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 & 2012-2013 within three months.

  • NEET Minorities, BCs Fear Quota Loss.

    The students from minorities and backward classes are in a fix over the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for admissions to MBBS courses in the state. They are worried about losing seats to students from other categories. This is because unlike Eamcet, which gives separate ranking for minorities and backward classes, there will be no separate ranking for these categories at the national-level.

    Currently, the state government implements 25 per cent reservations for the backward classes and four per cent for Muslim minorities in admissions. The 29 per cent reservations are classified as A, B, C, D and E groups. While the first four categories relate to castes and sub-castes of backward classes, the fifth category pertains to Muslim minorities. However, at the national-level, there are no BC and minority categorisations. They are all are categorised as Other Backward Classes. Students want the Centre to have a provision for specifying the caste in the NEET application form, and allot separate ranking for BCs and minorities.

    Even the managements of minority medical colleges are concerned about the issue. Though they are in favour of joining the NEET, they urged the Centre to ensure that the reservation matrix is not disturbed.

    Source : Deccan Chronicle

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