The annual fee for undergraduate courses in the IITs will be hiked to Rs 2 lakhs from Rs 90,000, from the upcoming academic session, according to officials of the Human Resource Development Ministry.
A proposal for such a hike in annual fees of IITs was approved by an IIT panel last month. The Standing Committee of IIT Council (SCIC), a body comprising of IIT directors and senior officials, had, proposed a hike in fees to Rs 3 lakhs a year.
According to sources, the fee of the SC, ST, disabled students and students belonging to families with annual income below Rs. one lakh will be waived. Students belonging to families with annual income below Rs. five lakh will get waiver of two-third of the fee.
On Wednesday, Union human resource development minister Smriti Irani promised a 100% fee waiver for all SC/ST, Dalit and physically challenged students of the 23 branches of IIT.
Irani said those students, who come from families whose annual income is less than Rs. five lakh, will be given a 66 percent concession in tuition fees. She added that the move would benefit nearly 50 percent of the 60,471 students enrolled in India’s top engineering institutes.
Reactions to this decision:
SC/ST will get free education in IIT, while upper class earning more than 5 lakh pa will pay 2 lakh fee to compensate? Whattay decision HRD!
— गीतिका (@ggiittiikkaa) April 7, 2016
IIT Fees increased from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 Lakhs #AcheDin#NITSrinagar pic.twitter.com/9EslFnzvHL
— Rajpal Yadav (@DoobeyJi) April 7, 2016
BJP Government’s Achhe Din for IIT students.
Fees raised from Rs.90,000 to Rs.2 lakh.— ETHICAL STALKER (@PsychographEd) April 7, 2016
Rs 90,000 to Rs 2. Dad, I saved u another 1.1 lakhs just by being less-intelligent. #IITfee
— Rohan Makkar (@Rohanmakkar) April 7, 2016
IIT: “We’re hiking fees from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh”
Sharda University: “We now accept dollars and euros. THE WORLD IS AT SHARDA GODDAMNIT”
— Akshar (@AksharPathak) April 7, 2016
IIT: “We’re hiking our fees from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2 lakh”
IIPM: “We’re hiking our fees from 20 lakh to 40 BUT COME ON YOU GET A FREE LAPTOP”
— Akshar (@AksharPathak) April 7, 2016
