New Delhi: The austerity measures taken by the Government could lead to increase in tuition fee, withdrawal of hostel subsidies and levy of user fees from students in the central universities, IITs, IIMs and other autonomous educational institutions.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has issued a direction to the autonomous and statutory bodies under its control, including IITs and central universities, to explore the option of generating resources by revising tuition fee of students and levying charges for using certain facilities.
“Given the constraints of resources leading to mandatory cuts in non-salary expenditure, it is expected that the institutions would make efforts to generate additional resources by gradual revision of tuition fees, levy of user fees, withdrawal of hostel subsidies and other measures,” Higher Education Secretary RP Agarwal said in the direction.
The Ministry has said that there shall be mandatory cut of 10 per cent in non-plan expenditure in 2009-10.
The cut will be realised from the expenses on domestic and foreign travel, publications, advertising and publicity and office expenses.
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