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Bangalore, Aug 28: Karnataka’s Higher Education Minister R V Deshpande has promised clarity in the fee structure for admissions to professional courses in the State during the next academic year of 2014-15.

The fee structure would be worked and finalized well before the commencement of the academic year, Deshpande said while speaking to reporters in Bangalore on Tuesday.

The minister, however, made it clear that there will not be uniform fee for admission of students for various professional courses in colleges in the State next year.

He said the State Government has decided to implement the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act 2006, from 2014-15 for admission of students for medical, engineering and dental courses.

Under the Act, two committees have to be constituted, he said.

While a fee fixation committee headed by a retired High Court judge will be entrusted with the task of fixing the fees for various colleges based on availability of infrastructure and another Admission Regulatory Committee headed by a former vice-chancellor of a university will be entrusted with the task of monitoring admissions.

Both the committees would be set up before December 31, 2013 to hear grievances of private college managements, he said.

Deshpande said the fees would vary in different engineering, medical and dental colleges based on the availability of infrastructure in those colleges.