Academicians seek to streamline fee structure in self-financing and aided colleges

Academicians person demanded the State authorities to streamline the interest operation successful self-financing and aided colleges crossed the State.

In Tamil Nadu, determination are 163 authorities colleges, of which 132 are arts and subject colleges, portion the remaining are B.Ed., Oriental, College of Arts, and good arts colleges. Generally, each backstage colleges, including self-financing colleges, are governed nether the Tamil Nadu Private Colleges Regulations (TNPCR) Act, 1976.

Former president of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) Tamil Nadu, K. Pandiyan, stated that the TNPCR Act became archaic arsenic 50 years have lapsed since its enactment. The information that determination is nary notation of colleges nether the self-financing watercourse successful the Act proves that the conception of self-financing successful acquisition was anathema erstwhile the Act was enacted.

“There has been a mushrooming of specified institutions successful the past 3 decades, outnumbering the authorities and government-aided institutions successful Tamil Nadu,” helium added.

Mr. Pandiyan said immoderate enactment needs rules for its effectual operation. Rule 9(5) of the TNPCR Act says the caput of the assemblage shall not interfere successful the interior medication of the college, specified arsenic admission, examination, promotion of students, and different world matters, arsenic besides the medication of peculiar interest funds, which shall beryllium made the exclusive work of the principal.

“But astir all government-aided colleges person the assemblage secretary’s bureau wrong the field and the secretary’s interference is imminent successful the day-to-day activities, including the fixation of alleged excess fees,” helium said.

Stating that the admittance guidelines, issued annually by the authorities successful the signifier of a G.O., person go redundant, Mr. Pandiyan said that galore of its provisions person been contemptuously violated, against which the director/RJDCEs inherently neglect to initiate immoderate punitive action. “It becomes imperative that the supra enactment needs a holistic reappraisal to amend the provisions to suit the contiguous times,” Mr. Pandiyan added.

“With respect to the fees to beryllium collected, the lack of a charter of course-wise fees for aided/self-financing courses has resulted successful backstage colleges being dictatorial successful the postulation of exorbitant fees for government-aided courses, not to notation the self-financing courses. The authorities issued the G.O. No. 265, dated May 13, 1997, and since past determination has been nary further guidance connected the fees,” helium said.

Mr. Pandiyan besides stated that 2 interest fixation committees had been constituted and thing factual has travel retired truthful far. “Unless the interest structures are streamlined, the edifice of higher acquisition volition beryllium demolished,” helium added.