In a major decision taken in NIT council meeting held on 3rd October 2015, in most likelihood, course fees at NIT colleges are set to hop triple, carrying NIT colleges’ fees at par with premium private engineering colleges. Following this increase, Fees structure will spike to RS 2 Lakh against current fees of Rs 70,000 per year at 31 NITs. It also needs to be noted that fees structure at IITS is about 90,000 Rs per year for undergraduate students.

This step will be on footsteps of IIM colleges, wherein NIT along with IISER will run on publicly funded mechanism that recover their whole running expenses from students’ fees. Headed by HRD Ministry (Smriti Irani), NIT will now abide the formula where operating cost (Salaries of staff and teachers as well as maintenance) incurred by the colleges will be recovered from students (through NIT colleges Fees) and government will fund for expenses on capital and infrastructural assets such as labs, equipment and research.

Anticipating negativity, an NIT director feels that this hike in fees structure might drive away some good students to private engineering colleges.

This meeting did not take any decision on much speculated buzz of negating the weightage on board marks for admission. In the current admission process, NIT gives 40% weightage to Class XII board marks and 60% to their JEE Main score. Earlier in meetings held in late September, A panel headed by IIT Bombay director Devang Khakhar had recommended that the board weightage be scrapped and the NITs admit students solely on the basis of their JEE Main scores.

Although NIT council has agreed unanimously to scrap weightage on board marks, however they have not given any final verdict yet.

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