Medical, engineering education just got costlier in Orissa

Medical, engineering education just got costlier in Orissa

Medical, engineering education just got costlier in Orissa
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Bhubaneswar: The state government on Friday announced the revised fee structure for private technical colleges for the year 2007-2008.

As per the announcement, the fees for engineering colleges has been fixed between Rs 32,000 and Rs 58,000 a year while MBBS course fee has been fixed at Rs 4.5 lakh.

Making a statement in the House, industry minister Biswabhusan Harichandan said that a notification to this effect has been issued as per the recommendation of the Fee Structure Committee.

Based on the recommendation of the committee, he said the Government brought out the notification on July 12, he added.

Giving a detailed account of the revised fee, the minister said that for the MCA programme, the annual fees has been fixed between Rs 28,000 and Rs 75,000 while for the MBA programme it would be between Rs 45,000 to Rs 90,000.

Similarly, the fee for the pharmacy course has been fixed in between Rs 35,000 to Rs 45,000 while the BDS fee has been fixed at Rs 2.1 lakh.

The announcement by the minister came following a directive by Speaker Maheswar Mohanty to notify the fee structure in response to the demands by several members during a special mention in the House.

Referring to the course fee for MBBS at Rs 4.5 lakh, Harichandan said that though it was on the higher side, the Committee, however, recommended the revised fee on the basis of the higher operational cost of the course.

He said that the announcement has been made by the state government to ensure a fair, transparent, non-exploitative merit-based admission to the professional educational institutions of the state.