No fee hike in private engineering colleges in Karnataka this year

A cap of Rs 20,000 fixed for collecting ‘miscellaneous and skill fees’ for the upcoming academic year. 

In a big relief for students and their parents, the Karnataka government has decided that there will be no increase in engineering fees in private colleges for the current 2021-2022 academic year. The decision was taken at a meeting with representatives of private engineering colleges. Following the agreement, the fees for engineering courses in private colleges for students who secure admission this year under government quota will continue as earlier in two different slabs of Rs 65,340 and Rs 58,806, State Minister for Higher Education, CN Ashwath Narayan, said. 

Further, it was decided that the maximum amount that can be collected as ‘miscellaneous fees’ and ‘skill fees’ would be capped at Rs 20,000, as per recommendations made by a committee headed by Prof Karisiddappa, the vice-chancellor of Vishwesharaiah Technical University (VTU). Earlier, 'miscellaneous fees' used to vary from college to college starting from Rs 10,000 to up to Rs 70,000. But now this should not exceed Rs 20,000.  

"Before prescribing the 'miscellaneous fees', colleges should notify the purposes for which it is being collected. The same information needs to be provided to the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA), Department of Technical Education and VTU and published on the website. This also should be remitted with KEA," the minister said. 

Earlier, there was a provision to pay admission fees at colleges, but now onwards this also should be paid at the KEA, Narayan said and added that the decision had been taken to eliminate the confusions that existed.  

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