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 Tamil Nadu higher education minister Dr K Ponmudy announced status quo in the fees structure for engineering courses in the state in the year 2009-10. The colleges will charge Rs 32,500 for seats from government quota and for management quota, the amount will be Rs 65,500.
 

  
Censuring some professional institutes approved by it for unfair practices in admission process, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has asserted that institutes cannot withhold refunds and testimonials as a pressure tactics against students. 

Five engineering colleges in Kerala have yet to obtain approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for admissions for academic year 2009-10 at a time when the results of the entrance test are due, on Monday to be precise.
 
One the five colleges is administered by the state Institute of Human Resources Development (IHRD). The rest, four colleges, are self financed institution and hence belong to the private sector.
 
Lack of proper infrastructure is said to be the main reason behind the delay in the approval. Besides, failure to forward report on compliance to the AICTE norms within the stipulated time and objections against their managements are the other factors that are coming in the way of their approval.

Through a press release Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) in Hyderabad has announced that the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) will start an entrepreneur development at its premises.

The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) cracked the whip by serving show cause notices on many pharmacy colleges in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan found violating norms. PCI chairman Dr B Suresh said the colleges were given one week’s time to reply to the show cause notices failing which stringent action would be initiated against them.

Crackdown on these erring institutions was due ever since they were found guilty of flouting rules to run the colleges in surprise raids carried out by PCI authorities.

Shikshan Shulka Samiti (fee fixation panel) has announced an ad hoc fee for the first year of the commencement of a professional college. Consequent to this announcement new engineering and medical colleges in Maharashtra that are looking forward to become functional in 2009-10 academic year cannot charge over that 40,000 for the first year BE and Rs 3 lakh for the first year MBBS course in the form of fee.

All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has given a go-ahead to Surya Educational and Charitable Trust to set up a technical institute on Rajpura-Ambala highway (NH1) through the letter of intent. Surya is a pharma major having stakes in healthcare and infrastructure.

In a sweeping move, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) cut the students' intake for BE/B.Tech courses in private engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu by 580 seats for 2009-10 academic year.

In a setback to the Lucknow University, the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) purged its 12 management courses under the Institute of Management Sciences the council had approved for the session 2009-10. The Institute of Management Sciences (IMS) runs these courses.