M Tech fee hike at IITs to discourage ‘non-serious’ students: HRD Ministry

The ministry justified the fee hike on the ground that it will discourage “non-serious students”, who park themselves at an IIT only to leave the programme midway after finding a job. “This drop out in the middle of the programme leads to wastage of coveted seats on the one hand and denies opportunity to other serious and meritorious students…” the statement read.

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IIT-Delhi Director V Ramgopal Rao came out in support of the decision, calling the feel hike a “surgical strike” on “uninterested” students. “The freebies we have been doling out with taxpayers’ money to students who are uninterested and into systems which have become unaccountable need to stop at some point,” he wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. “Over 50 per cent dropouts in masters programmes today in IITs only means that students value the jobs they get after their B Tech more than the career they can build with their M Tech degrees.”