COIMBATORE: The State Government has reconstituted a complaint cell to probe into allegations of collection of capitation fee and excess fees by self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu.
Professor V Jayabalan, former Controller of Examinations, Anna University will head the threemember committee. The panel will comprise P K Palanisamy, a professor of eminence at the university, and a member not below the rank of associate professor serving in Government engineering college or Anna University constituent college for each inspection or group of inspections. The Higher Education Ministry issued a Government Order reconstituting the panel on Thursday. The committee shall have the powers "to inspect and enquire into the complaints relating to collection of capitation fee and charging of tuition fee higher than the fee prescribed by the Committee on Fixation of Fee in respect of Self Financing Professional Colleges."
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However, between 2001 and 2006 Jayalalithaa had given Vice Chancellors a free hand to deal with complaints regarding mismanagement of colleges and harassment of students, although from the latter half of 2005 onwards the crackdown had its lost steam. In2003, Jayabalan had unearthed a racket in which around 6,000 students had joined BE/BTech courses by submitting fake SC/ST certificates. Two years ago, he probed into complaints about postgraduate students doubling up as teachers for undergraduate students in several engineering colleges and recommended action against 250 such 'studentteachers'. The Madras High Court had upheld the action.
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