The State government has reduced the extent of fee hike for engineering courses from 10% to 7% for the academic year 2023-24. The government has withdrawn the earlier order and signed a new consensual agreement with private engineering colleges.
The previous BJP government had increased the engineering course fee by 10% and signed the consensual agreement in February/March, 2023. Recently, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah held a meeting with Higher Education and Technical Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar and ordered withdrawal of the earlier order.
Speaking to The Hindu, Dr. Sudhakar said: “The Chief Minister had asked for complete withdrawal of 10% hike. But finally we arrived at an increase of 7%.”
In the 2022-23 academic year, engineering course fee in government and aided colleges was ₹38,200. It was ₹91,796 in unaided colleges, including Minority (Type-1) ones. In unaided colleges, including Minority (Type-2) ones, it was ₹98,984 and in deemed and private universities it was ₹91,796.
