Meeting next month on fee hike for engineering courses

Minister for Higher Education C.N. Ashwath Narayan said here on Monday that the government will hold a meeting in the second week of September to discuss the demand of private engineering college mana

Minister for Higher Education C.N. Ashwath Narayan said here on Monday that the government will hold a meeting in the second week of September to discuss the demand of private engineering college managements to hike fees. Replying to a question at a press conference in Mangalore University, the Minister said that fees of engineering courses have not been revised for the last three years. Private college managements are saying that the government is showing discriminatory attitude by allowing the fees of medical and dental courses revised every year. Hence, they also should be allowed to revise fees. Their demand will be discussed next month. To another question, the Minister said that the implementation of National Education Policy 2020 in the State will not undermine languages other than Kannada in higher education. Learning Kannada as a language has been made mandatory for the first two years. In addition, students will be given an option of selecting any other language as an open elective. Hence, other languages too will get their due importance.