Karnataka notifies 50% fee waiver for 'out of favour' streams at govt engineering colleges: Report
Bengaluru: In a recent move to address the declining demand for certain engineering disciplines, a 50% fee waiver has been announced for a few 'out of favour' engineering streams in government colleges. This includes once-popular courses such as mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and others.
Adding the fee waiver decision to the official gazette issued, the higher education department said, if private colleges wish to add their list to the fee waiver, the same can be communicated to the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), as reported by Deccan Herald on Thursday.
According to the gazette, fee reduction applies to streams that have seen a decline in student enrollment over the years, including mechanical, civil, textiles technology, silk technology, and automobile engineering. The 50% fee waiver will take effect from the 2025-26 academic year.
So far, no private engineering college has updated about fee waiver, the report added.
Simultaneously, the higher education department has issued an official order to raise fees for engineering and architecture courses. The fee hike amounts to 7.5% for both government and private quota seats. Specifically, government engineering colleges will see a 5% increase in their fees.
The fee at private colleges is Rs 81,800 for CET seats (type-1 colleges) and Rs 91,000 (type-2 colleges). These figures do not include university registration or processing fees.
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Bangladesh court sentences Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in corruption cases
Dhaka (PTI): A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in jail in two separate corruption cases related to alleged irregularities in allocations of land in a government housing project.
Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-4 Judge Rabiul Alam handed down the verdicts, sentencing Hasina to a total of 10 years’ imprisonment — five years in each case, state-run BSS news agency reported.
The court sentenced 78-year-old Hasina, her nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and her nieces, Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq, and others in the cases over alleged irregularities in the allocation of plots under the Rajuk New Town Project in Purbachol.
The judgment was pronounced at around 12.30 pm.
Tulip Siddiq was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment — two years in each case — while Radwan Mujib Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq were each sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment in both cases.
Rajuk member Mohammad Khurshid Alam, the only accused to surrender before the court, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in each case, totalling two years.
The court also fined all convicted persons Tk1 lakh each and ordered them to serve an additional six months in prison in default of payment.
Hasina has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of the massive protests. She was earlier declared a fugitive by the court.
The cases were filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over alleged abuse of power in the allocation of two 10-katha plots.
According to the prosecution, the accused manipulated the allocation process and violated existing rules and regulations of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
