The AIDSO Karnataka State Committee has strongly condemned the government’s decision to increase the fee by 10% for government quota seats in private engineering colleges.
In 2022, the management of private engineering colleges held a meeting with the Higher Education Department and the Karnataka Examination Authority and put forward a proposal to increase the fees of government quota seats in private engineering colleges and the fees of private engineering colleges by 10% every year. Accordingly, the fees were increased by 10% in 2022-23.
“At that time, State students and AIDSO had opposed the fee hike. As a continuation of the same undemocratic decision, the current State government has agreed to increase the fees by 10% for the present academic year and has said that confusion will be created if the decision of the previous government is reversed. This move of the State government has dampened the dreams of poor meritorious students of the State,” the AIDSO said in its press release here.
