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The Maharashtra Government has directed self-financed universities in Maharashtra to offer 50 percent discount in fees to meritorious students from economically weaker sections, irrespective of caste categories..
Maharashtra higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil on Wednesday had said that the state government will soon come out with a GR, which will mandate private universities to reserve 10 percent seats for students of EWS, and charge from them only 50 per cent of tuition fees..
While admissions are currently underway in most universities across the state, Vikas Rastogi, the Principal Secretary of Higher and Technical Education department of Maharashtra, explained The said benefit will be applicable from the academic year 2023-24, wherein 10 per cent of students admitted to self-financed private universities will get the fee-waiver, provided they fulfil the criterion of EWS status...
Stating that the decision has been taken in consensus with private universities across Maharashtra; Prof Dr Mangesh Karad, President of the Preeminent Education Research Association (PERA), which is an association of all private universities in Maharashtra, said, A meeting was held on this with the government a few months ago, and then the decision was taken..
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