The Fee Regulatory Committee (FRC) for Gujarat Professional and Technical Colleges declared the revised fee structure for 17 self-financed engineering colleges and seven degree pharmacy colleges on Friday. The fee structure is fixed for those self-financed colleges that started in 2009-10. The committee has also declared the ad hoc fee structure for the new self-financed engineering, pharmacy,postgraduate management and computer application,technology and pharmacy courses, which got sanction for the year 2010-11 by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The self-financed colleges whose fees is fixed are from Gandhinagar,Surat,Mehsana,Rajkot,Kalol-Mehsana,Unjha-Mehsana,Ahmedabad,Anand,Himmatnagar,Modasa,Vallabh Vidyanagar,Modassa and Jamnagar. On the ad hoc basis,the fees for pharmacy colleges were settled at Rs 42,000 and for engineering colleges it was fixed at Rs 32,000. According to the recent changes made by the FRC ,the fees for 17 engineering colleges range from Rs 41,000 to Rs 51,000. Similarly,for seven pharmacy colleges,the fees are now between Rs 47,000-Rs 52,000. The fee structure for each self-financed (engineering and pharmacy) college depends on the infrastructure and teaching staff of the institute. The delay in fixing the fee structure was due to the demise of former FRC Chairman Justice (retired) R J Shah after which Justice (retired) Akshay Mehta took over as FRC chairman. The details of fee structure for the engineering and pharmacy institutes were posted on the FRC website on Friday evening,according to officials at the Directorate of Technical Education. FRC may also announce the fee structure for 12 engineering colleges that had moved the Gujarat High Court in 2008 to increase staff salaries following the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.
