Taking exception to the government’s direction to charge only Rs. 2,900 as fees for admission to aided private Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the State, management representatives of the same have sought fee enhancement.
Addressing presspersons here on Friday, representatives of various management boards of aided private ITIs, including A.S. Mantaganikar, Brahmakumar Malagi, Balu Magajikondi, Mohan Ekbote and others, maintained that it was difficult for them to give quality education to students under the fee structure proposed by the government.
Mr. Mantaganikar said that at a time when the prices of all training materials required for practical training had gone up, it was difficult for them to provide them if the same low fee structure was maintained.
Mr. Mantaganikar and Mr. Magajikondi said that the Director General of Employment and Training (DGET), New Delhi, had recommended a fee structure of Rs. 15,000 for engineering trades and Rs. 12,000 for non-engineering trades in rural areas.
And similarly DGET had recommended a fee structure of Rs. 16,500 for engineering trades and Rs. 13,200 for non-engineering trades in urban areas.
“The DGET had sent letter on the fee structure accepted by the Union government to the all the principal secretaries of State governments on December 29, 2014 itself. However till date the State government had not said anything on the issue despite several ITIs on the verge of closure,” Mr. Ekbote said.
The representatives said that while the government was implementing all the recommendations of the DGET and bringing in reforms, they would also expect the state government to implement the new fee structure recommended by the DGET.
“Apart from the salary grant we don’t receive any other grant for improving the infrastructure. If the state approves the new fee structure, it will help us in providing quality education to the students. Otherwise we will have to compromise on the quality when it comes to practical classes,” they said.
