Madras University asks colleges to submit affiliation fee dues on or before Mar 15

The circular from the Registrar states that colleges must pay Rs 25,000 per course, per section for every programme, including certificate, diploma and undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) professional courses, they offer. Colleges must pay the fee (from the fourth year of UG and third year of PG) online.

The University of Madras has released the circular for the affiliated colleges asking them to pay up ‘continuation of provisional affiliation fee’ for the period 2016-17 till 2020-21 for each course they conduct. The circle also mentioned that each college will have to pay the fees on or before March 15.

The circular from the Registrar states that colleges must pay Rs 25,000 per course, per section for every programme, including certificate, diploma and undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) professional courses, they offer. Colleges must pay the fee (from the fourth year of UG and third year of PG) online.

The university made the decision after the local fund audit pointed out that despite the statute mandating the affiliation fee, it had not been collected. Some senior university officials pointed out that the statute had not mentioned specifically that colleges should be charged a continuing affiliation fee, and that it was a one-time fee till the first batch completed its course. The officials said they could not have made such a blunder as it would affect the institution’s revenue.

However, Vice-Chancellor S Gowri nominated a senior syndicate member to study the statute. The V-C said the member, who had earlier served in the government, had said the university had not collected the fee due to it. The dues collected from the colleges would help tide over the severe financial crisis that the university is currently in.

Meanwhile, the VC has said that digitalization in every sector got a major boost and consumption of content in regional languages has increased manifold Digitisation is now in every place and people from rural areas have started using online services and consumption of regional content is more than ever.

“Companies are trying their best to translate their English content into regional languages so that they can widen their reach. And I see this as an opportunity for our students. We are trying to provide consultancy services to some companies for translating their content from English to the south Indian languages,” said Gowri.

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