The Government of Uttar pradesh has announced that there will be no fee hike for this year in all private or government-aided colleges which are affiliated to Technical Education department. Thus, the fees in all engineering, polytechnic and technology colleges will remain same as of last year for the upcoming academic session 2021-22.
The decision has been taken amid the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on economical sector. The second wave of pandemic brought a major downfall in the financial system which made more negative effects then the first wave. A lot of families have lost their financial stability and are struggling to pay education fees of their children.
In such conditions, increasing the college fees would make it difficult for a large number of students to take admissions. There are around 1997 engineering and polytechnic colleges across Uttar pradesh with a total of 6.5 Lakh students. The decision will benefit all this students to continue their studies without any fee issues.
The announcement regarding this decision was made by Mr. Alok Kumar, the Secretary of Technical education department, via his official twitter handle. He mentioned that the Department will soon issue an official order to all the affiliated institutes. And the current fee structure being used is the same that was formulated in 2017-18 by the government.
This decision was made in a meeting held by the government officials with the Director and joint directors of Technical education department along with Nodal principal of all District polytechnic colleges. In the same meeting, it was also decided that exams for all students in final year of technical education will be held from third week of July.
Mr. Alok Kumar also informed that the exams for rest of the intermediate semesters or years will be held by online mode in last week of July. However the exam will be based only on objective-type questions. The technical education department has advised all its colleges to complete the remaining syllabus within next five weeks.