Telangana: Cabinet subcommittee to prepare modalities for fee regulation

Hyderabad: Parents and students who are being forced to pay exorbitant fees by private educational institutions can hope for some relief soon. While a decision was taken to regulate fee in private educational institutions, the State government is working on formulating necessary modalities. In this connection, the Cabinet subcommittee comprising a group of Ministers is […]

Hyderabad: Parents and students who are being forced to pay exorbitant fees by private educational institutions can hope for some relief soon.

While a decision was taken to regulate fee in private educational institutions, the State government is working on formulating necessary modalities. In this connection, the Cabinet subcommittee comprising a group of Ministers is scheduled to meet on February 21.

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The subcommittee, including Education Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy, will study and prepare modalities for fee regulation in private schools, junior and degree colleges across the State. The government is also expected to bring in a new legislation on fee regulation in the forthcoming Assembly budget session.

For preparing modalities on regulation of fee, Education department officials are obtaining information on rules being followed in other States which will then be submitted before the Ministers. The subcommittee will also discuss the introduction of English medium in government schools.

Presently, in the absence of a regulatory mechanism, private educational institutions particularly schools, have been fleecing parents in the name of tuition fee. In fact, some management of the private schools are hiking the tuition fee by 30 per cent to 40 per cent every academic year. Similarly, citing intensive and special coaching for various entrance tests like JEE, NEET, EAMCET, private and corporate junior colleges are charging exorbitant fees. Vexed by the high fee structures, parents have been urging the government for a regulation.

It may be noted here that the government had constituted a committee chaired by Osmania University former Vice Chancellor Prof. T Tirupati Rao seeking a report on tuition fee regulation in private schools. The committee had submitted its recommendations to the government.

Currently, the government is fixing and regulating tuition fee for various professional programmes like engineering, medicine, MBA and MCA in private professional colleges via the Telangana Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee. The committee decides fee for a three-year block period on the basis of the expenditure incurred by managements, facilities and infrastructure etc provided to students.

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