The managements of engineering colleges on Sunday demanded that the state government implement the Andhra Pradesh High Court orders on variable fee structure from this academic year. “The government should immediately implement the Andhra Pradesh High Court orders on variable fee structure. It should not try to delay the implementation by filing a review petition in the High Court or approach the Supreme Court for the purpose,” demanded Dr P. Rajeshwar Reddy, general secretary, the Consortium of Engineering Colleges Managements Association of Andhra Pradesh.

The government’s contention is that it is not possible to implement the variable fee structure and fix uniform fees for convenor and management quota seats from this academic year for practical reasons, like verifying the accounts of over 700 engineering colleges in the middle of the academic year. Cecma held an emergency general body meeting on Sunday in the wake of the
Andhra Pradesh High Court orders on Saturday over fixing the variable fee structure.

It has also demanded the release of at least 75 per cent of the tuition fee for second, third and final year engineering students under the fee reimbursement scheme. “Despite the AICTE reducing the qualifying marks to 45 per cent for engineering admissions, the State government has implemented 50 per cent cut-off for admissions in managements. Many of the colleges admitted students according to the 45 per cent cut-off as stipulated by the AICTE. We urge the government to ratify all such admissions as per AICTE norms,” Dr Reddy said.

The association has also objected to AICTE’s direction of paying the processing fee only through ICICI Bank, since many of the rural engineering colleges don’t have an ICICI Bank branch in their locality. What Cecma says to government The government should immediately implement the AP High Court orders on variable fee structure At least 75 per cent of tuition fee for IInd, IIIrd and final year students under the fee reim bursement scheme should be released Should ratify admis sions of students, who were enrolled with a cut-off mark of 45 per cent, as stipulated by the AICTE