The union HRD minister Kapil Sibal has been urged by the Congress leader and former Syndicate Member of Utkal University Alok Jena to initiate measures to ensure proper implementation of the tuition fee waiver scheme for financially backward, women and physically challenged meritorious students pursuing studies in institutions imparting technical education in the country.

This scheme would benefit about three lakh students, envisaged by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), if properly implemented in all the institutions imparting technical education.

In a meeting with Sibal in New Delhi recently, Mr Jena submitted a representation seeking his intervention in the implementation of the tuition fee waiver scheme.

Mr Jena said the implementation of the scheme should be made mandatory in all institutions imparting technical education in the both government and non-government sectors.

The scheme was introduced by the AICTE in 2007 when noted academician and present Director of IIT Kharagpur Damodar Acharya was chairman of the organisation.

Ordering for implementation of the scheme in the state in July this year, the Odisha government had said that typically for every 60 sanctioned intake in a branch/discipline of study, tuition fee waiver shall be given to two women candidate, three economically weaker students (annual income of parents/guardians less than Rs. 2.5 lakhs from all sources) and one physically handicapped students based on merit.

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