IIT Appeals For Withdrawing Fee Exemption

IIT Appeals For Withdrawing Fee Exemption

Facing a financial crunch due to the fee exemption for special category students at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), the group of institutions have appealed to the government to replace the current policy. The replaced policy, IIT has suggested is direct reimbursements by the government to such students. It has also suggested replacing fee waiver with interest free loans to economically weaker students. 

The cost incurred on such students is "adversely affecting the financial viability of the institutions and eroding their corpus funds", the recommendation from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to the government said. 

We are not against the policy and the social welfare decision taken on fee waivers... We are just pleading with the government to reimburse the gap," said Indranil Manna, director at IIT-Kanpur. 

During the IIT-Kanpur 155th meeting for all IIT directors, it was in unison agreed to send these proposals to the IIT Council - the apex coordination body for all the 16 IITs chaired by the union HRD minister. 

Posted by: Malavikka 

Published: Friday, December 23, 2016 in CAREER INDIA