JNTU Hyderabad not to get tech fee in time

Hyderabad: With the government not in a position to release fee reimbursement dues, professional colleges have expressed their helplessness to pay the common services fee to JNTU for this year.

This means that the varsity will be short of nearly Rs 100 crore revenues. According to the JNTU registrar, the varsity will now have to look for alternative resources to extend services to the affiliated colleges. Like every year, the varsity had written to all engineering, MBA, MCA, and pharmacy colleges this month.

The common services fee contributes a major chunk of revenue to the varsity. Each college has to pay Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 per head depending on the year of study of students. There are nearly 300 engineering colleges and most pay in the range of Rs 22 lakh to Rs 80 lakh depending on the number of students studying.

JNTU registrar Dr N. Yadaiah said that the varsity collected the fee for services such as faculty development programmes, curriculum revision and content development, workshops and staff training, co-ordination meetings, university publications and examination related services.

Telangana Private Engineering and Professional Colleges Management Association general secretary K. Sunil Kumar said that colleges were not in a position to pay full salaries to their staff, leave alone the services fee to the varsity.

“The issue was brought to the notice of varsity officials and then to education minister Kadiam Srihari. We told him that colleges were facing financial woes and sought time till the first week of March to pay 25 per cent of the amount. The minister agreed and gave directions to JNTU officials,” he said.