Updated on: Monday, July 21, 2014
There were reports to All India Council for Technical Education and University Grants commission regarding the collection of capitation fee in the deemed universities. P. Palaniappan, the Higher Education Minister stated that there are no complaints in this regard in Tamil Nadu. The question is raised by DMDK legislative R.Mohanraj, that the colleges are collecting capitation fee based on the cut - off of 125 pays one amount and a student will higher cut off pays a lower amount. The minister that there is no such complaint. In fact, All India Council fees Technical Education and University grants commission. A total of 1464 complaints were registered with AICTE between Jan 2012 and March 2014 and 24 with UGC. The Directorate of Technical Education in Tamil Nadu recorded 130 complaints between June 2013 and March 2014.