Tamil Nadu

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has devised a revised fee structure for the engineering and technical colleges. The fee structure along with the minimum fee limit has been sent to the Ministry of Education. An expert committee had first recommended an upper limit fee that the institutes can charge as tuition fee. The new directives will now also introduce lower limit, or minimum fees. The committee has proposed that in case of undergraduate engineering disciplines, the annual minimum fee cannot be below Rs 79,000 while the maximum has been capped at Rs 1.89 Lacs. In its previous report, submitted in April 2015, the committee had suggested that the maximum fee for UG four-year engineering courses be fixed at Rs 1.44 Lacs to Rs 1.58 Lacs per annum. For post-graduate engineering programmes, the maximum and minimum fee have been proposed at Rs 3.03 Lacs and Rs 1.41 Lacs respectively.