Telangana: 19 private engineering colleges drop out of fee revision

The colleges, which did not apply to TAFRC for fee revision, are barred from collecting any fee and admission

Hyderabad: The landscape of the engineering education in the private colleges is set to undergo a significant shift, which is expected to impact prospective students.

The number of private engineering colleges will come down by 19 for the forthcoming academic year. This comes as these colleges did not seek fee revision for the next three-year block period, commencing academic year 2025-26.

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In response to the notification released by the Telangana Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (TAFRC), inviting applications from private managements for the fee revision, a total of 157 colleges have applied as against 176 in the block period 2022-25.

As per the notification, institutions, which are unresponsive, or do not submit statements of income and expenditure, audited balance sheets among other details will not be permitted to collect any fee. Such colleges will not be allowed to admit students for the forthcoming academic year.

“Colleges may go for progressive closure or seek fee revision in the next year after obtaining necessary approvals from AICTE and affiliating university. Such colleges will only be granted a minimum fee,” sources said.

Not only engineering programmes, several private institutions are shying away from offering other professional programmes. This is evident from 62 professional colleges dropping out of the fee revision for the next three-year block period.

This time, 1,229 colleges sought fee revision as against 1,291 during the period 2022-2025. As per details, 13 private colleges offering teacher education programmes did not apply and so are eight pharmacy colleges for MPharmacy fee.

The fee is revised based on colleges final audited statements of income and expenditure, and balance sheets and developmental needs for the immediately preceding years, particulars of expenditure incurred on salaries and infrastructure among others.

“Application receiving process has concluded. The Committee will shortly call colleges for personal hearing and later the fee is fixed,” sources said.