NIT fees to be double from next session

Tuition fees of B.Tech, M.Tech and MCA programmes in National Institutes of Technology (NITs) would be doubled from the next academic session to Rs 70,000.

However this hike the fees will not be for SC and ST students.

The council meeting was chaired by Higher Education Secretary Ashok Thakur in the absence of HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju, who skipped it.

The IITs had earlier this year also effected a steep hike in tuition fees for undergraduate programme from Rs 50,000 to Rs 90,000.

There are at present 30 NITs in the country, of which 10 have been set up in recent years.