Punjab government will soon set up a regulatory authority for higher educational institutions, the state's Parliamentary Affairs minister Brahm Mohindra informed the Punjab Assembly here today.
He was responding to a supplementary question by AAP MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwan during the Question Hour on the second day of the budget session.
"A regulatory authority will soon be set up for higher education. If there is any particular case (of overcharging), I will get it inquired also," Mohindra said.
The AAP legislator had claimed that students of nursing colleges were being overcharged and demanded action by the state government in this regard.
"The fee for the nursing course has been fixed at Rs 40,000. But almost all the nursing colleges in the state are charging Rs 70,000 from students and colleges also increase fee every year. Representations in this regard have been given to the concerned authorities," he said.
Mohindra, while replying to a question by Congress MLA Darshan Singh Brar, said there was no proposal for opening a nursing college in Bagha Purana.
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"A sum of Rs 74 crore was released by the Centre to the previous regime for giving houses to BPL families. But not a single paisa was spent on it," said Sidhu while claiming that the Congress government had received 4.75 lakh applications under Punjab Sehri Awas Yojana and out of which 1.67 lakh applications had been approved in the last one year.
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