22 Dec 2018| Mumbai | Musab Qazi mes.com
Soon, a panel to decide fees in private varsities
AS PER NEW RULE, PVT UNIVERSITIES WOULD HAVE TO DISCLOSE THE
FEES THEY DECIDE TO THE STATE
MUMBAI: In a bid to bring transparency
in the fees of the courses offered at self-financed universities in
Maharashtra, the state government has decided that the fee structure will be
decided by a varsity-level ‘fee fixation committee’. However, their colleges
will continue to have the autonomy to decide their fees.
The fee fixation committee will
include members of the respective universities’ academic and management council
members, retired judges, former vice-chancellors, chartered accountants and
Padma Bhushan awardees.
The decision is part of a new set
of rules and regulations for self-financed or private universities. The state
higher and technical education department will soon notify these rules, after
receiving a green signal from the law and judiciary department.
According to the new rules, the
private universities will have to disclose the various fees they decide to the
government. Students and other stakeholders can get their grievances resolved
by Maharashtra Higher Education Development Council (MAHED).
The new set of rules come around
a month after Ravindra Waikar, the minister of state for technical and higher
education, proposed that the state government decide and regulate the fees of
courses offered at private, or self-financed, universities.
In a letter to chief minister
Devendra Fadnavis, Waikar, who belongs to the Shiv Sena, which is an alliance
partner of the ruling BJP government, alleged that the universities are
functioning in a high-handed manner, as there is no government control over
these institutes.
As many as 13 private
universities have come up in the state after the government enacted the
Maharashtra Self-Financed Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Act in
2011. Letters of intent (LOIs) have been granted to five more organisations
which have proposed to set up such institutes.
The state government has granted
permission for these varsities in order to reduce burden on its public
universities while making a variety of education programmes available to the
students.
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