IIT Fees

As part of the efforts to confer self-financing status to IITs, drastic revisions in its present fee structure seem likely. The IIT directors have decided to propose an eight-fold increase in its student fees before Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.

The brain storming session would also discuss the newly evolved system for checking the ongoing teacher shortage crisis, under which fresh M. Tech graduates would be allowed to serve as ‘faculty interns’ in IITs.