Pursuing medical, engineering and other professional courses will now be more expensive as the State Government has hiked fees for these courses being offered in the private colleges.
The Skill Development & Technical Education Department hiked the course fees under Sub-Section 7 of Section 6 of the Orissa Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission & Fixation of Fee) Act, 2007 for the academic session 2018-19.
With the fee hike for the courses like MBBS, BDS, Engineering, MTech, BArch, MArch, MBA and MCA, the parents and aspirants will go through proper planning before taking admission in the private colleges.
As per the revised fee structure, the highest amount of Rs 1.25 lakh has been hiked for the MBBS course in the Hi Tech Medical College and Hospital in Rourkela where the candidate has to pay Rs 5.50 lakh instead of Rs 4.25 lakh. The fee for BDS course has been increased to Rs 6.50 lakh from Rs 5.50 lakh in Bhubaneswar. The Clinical PG course fee has been fixed at Rs 7.15 lakh and Dental fee course at Rs 3 lakh. However, the PG course fee has remained unchanged.
The fees for BPharm and BTech courses have been hiked to Rs 9,000 and Rs 30,000, respectively. As the CV Raman College of Engineering has received a NAAC “A”-grade accreditation status, its fee for engineering courses has been increased to Rs 1.14 lakh from Rs 89,000. The candidates have to pay Rs 1.25 lakh for MTech course at the institute.
Similarly, the BTech course fee has been hiked to Rs 1.10 lakh at the Gandhi Engineering College (GEC), Bhubaneswar and Rs 85,000 at the Gandhi Institute For Technology (GIFT), Bhubaneswar. The MTech course fees have been increased to Rs 1.10 lakh and Rs 93,000, respectively, in these two colleges.
However, the fees for the BTech and MTech courses have been reduced to Rs 72,000 from Rs 77,000 and Rs 79,000 from Rs 85,000, respectively, in the Krupajal Engineering School (KES). Source said an additional fee of Rs 5,000 taken for NAAC status has been reduced.
The MBA and MCA course fees have also been increased by Rs 9,000 up to Rs 27,000 in various private colleges across the State. While the fees for BArch and MArch courses have been hiked to Rs 81,000 and Rs 89,000, respectively, the course fee has been fixed at Rs 55,000 in the SGI School of Architecture, Bhubaneswar.