Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Excess fee: YC sniffs nexus between engg colleges & DTE



Demonstrates in front of DTE office, submits memorandum

Director assures to either impose fine on guilty engg colleges or derecognise them

Raipur, July 19, 2011

With private engineering colleges bluntly refusing to return the excess fee taken from the students in previous academic sessions in spite of apparent instructions from government constituted Admissions and Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC), the Youth Congress (YC) has alleged that such institutes dared to say ‘big no’ to students and parents because they had nexus with the officials of Directorate Technical Education (DTE). Protesting the attitude of private engineering colleges, the YC’s Raipur Lok Sabha members led by their president Vinod Tiwari on Tuesday demonstrated aggressively before Bairon Bazar-based DTE office and submitted memorandum to Additional Director MR Khan.
The YC demanded from Khan to quickly take action against those engineering colleges which were openly disobeying AFRC directives and repeated admonitions of DTE. Khan assured that the DTE would either impose fine on the guilty engineering colleges or derecognise them.
Notably, fixing the new fee structure for the private engineering colleges, the AFRC had earlier asked the institutes, which had taken excess fee from the students for different courses in 2008-09 and 2009-10, to immediately return the additional amount.
In this connection, the YC members had recently submitted a complaint to the DTE seeking its intervention and apt action against the guilty institutes.
“We are afraid to inform that in spite of our compliant to the DTE, the engineering colleges including Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology (Mujgahan, Raipur) are threatening and harassing the students. This is unjust as many of these students belong to middle class families and their parents have arranged the fee amount either by shelling out their hard earned money or taking loans,” said Tiwari.
He said the YC would launch agitation against private engineering colleges and DTE phased manner if the excess fee of the students would not be returned in next coming days.
During demonstration, Tiwari was accompanied by Ashish Dubey, Sushil Agrawal, Indrajeet Singh, Sunny Agrawal, Vikki Yaduvandhi, Bunti Pandey, Balbeer Singh, Arjun Pal, Amit Tiwari and other YC members in large number.

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