Undergraduate courses are basic courses to enable anyone to equip themselves for a career, and must be accessible to most students without recourse to financing. Comparing to IIMs is incorrect as IIM students would have already worked and generated some funds before joining. IITs also have a social objective of providing excellent education at reasonable fees. With the proposed hike, they would be no different from private institutions that are in the 'business' of education
I strongly disagree with the suggested hike in the fees of IIT's.
Firstly , There are some fields like healthcae, education, security, woman empowerment etc , which are the moral responsibility of government, so education (whether primary or higer or professional) must be within the reach of a common man.
Secondly, if IIMs are charging high fees , their fees should be reduced instead of increasing the fees of IITs.
Even today we can see many kids from underprivileged segment are not able to get the right opportunity even if they have the ability. Super 30 (IIT coaching for underprivileged in BIHAR)
Well they say that the fees hike is according to salary structure which the passed btechs would get. do u know average salary an iitian gets . it is merely 5.5 to 6.5 lacs.and also about 35% get less than 5 lacs. So if fees is hoked then they expect that for first 5 years of job the person again lives in scarcity and carries burden of his fees. If one says iit people go abroad then this is going to further encourage it.earlier they went only for jobs now they will go even for graduation as after all iits do not even stand in top 50 colleges of world. Also the burden of this would be carried by only general category which constitute 50% of the intake. rest OBC and SC ST are mostly going to get rebate who come after securing much less marks than others sometimes even half. this happens even now. And what the hard work which student does for coming in it. shouldnot it be rewarded with scholar ship. THUS what this commitee wants is 2 4 5=11 years of great burdenship for india's brightest talent, wow??
The very purpose of creating standard instituion is defeated with such hikes.
If raising is necessary, alternatives should be exercised first. Innotvative ideas should be implemented. Tie-ups with R&D, Consultancies should be explored.
Putting the burden on the young minds at the initial stage with heavy loans and fees is uncalled for.
What is the purpose of taxes collected by the government.
Re: Unjustifiable
by Maximum on Jan 24, 2011 07:55 PM
We need to recover money from IITs IIMS and AIMS because to cover losses for CWG 3G Pertol hike Rising Food prices subsidy on alchol etc even selling national assets by making crores of losses will still not help we should contribute every square meal to feed the poloticians
Rs 2,50,000 is not at all a high fee for a BE degree from an IIT. People pay more than 10-15 lakh donations to get into a nameless engineering institution. It is a huge cost to the government to provide the facilities to IIT students. Given that most of the engineers from IITs and other govt institutions go abroad never to return, the government can charge the fee up front to the students. With the increased funds they can improve the facilities at the university and even increase lecturer salaries..
P.S: I paid Rs 3,700 for my 4 years Engineering degree from Osmania University in 1992-1996. I got a Rs 2,800 industrial tour stipend. All in all the government would have spent atleast Rs 50,000 on my 4 year education.
Re: I feel it is justified
by Pavan Kota on Jan 28, 2011 10:23 AM
Ravi, 1) Have you done your part to repay the 50,000 govt. has spent on you. 2) Would you have become an engineer today had you veen asked to shell out 1 lakh per annum in 1992?
Autonomy for IITs is very important. In a long run, this will greatly help to make the IITs world class away from the government policies and other bureaucracies. But probably we must consider financing students to meet this fees demand. This is where government can set up loans system for students with 0% interest. This system in present in N.America and works well.
Re: Autonomy is important
by asad hgjkf on Jan 24, 2011 07:59 AM
Autonomy when the IIT's have no right to fill up their seats, and need to conform to the govt's reservation norms? If IITs have to be made autonomous, then they shud be given complete autonomy. Half measures benefiting the govt will not work for the good of people.
Re: No fee at all
by abdul siddiqi on Jan 22, 2011 04:55 PM
very true........these institutions were created to bring out brilliance from al corners of the country............an increase in fee will keep the poor but talentent onces away from getting world class education. Many of us (proud to be IITan) would not have been able to pay such enormous fee and would have ended our life in doing small jobs
