Monday, February 5, 2007

capitation fee - Is it illegal?

I always presumed collection of capitation fee by engineering colleges to be illegal and punishable by the Government/University.

It appears that children of NRIs can pay and get seats at Anna University or Government engineering colleges. The amount is fixed by the authorities and is different for different branches. If this is not capitation fee what else is?

1 comment:

DevilsAdvocate said...

my attention has been drawn to a supreme court judgment on 31-10-2002 which says
“………. Fees to be charged by unaided institutions can not be regulated but no institution should charge capitation fee.”
So capitation fee is illegal only