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West Bengal Free-Ship Scheme in Engg. Colleges for 2014-15

24/06/2014 by WBXPress Team 4 Comments

Update: West Bengal Free-Ship Scheme in Engg. Colleges for 2015-16

Government of West Bengal
Higher Education Department
Technical Branch
Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata – 700 091

No. 270-Edn(T)/10M-70/2012 Dated, Kolkata, 20th June 2014.

Order

The Higher Education Department, vide no. 326-Edn (T) dated 14th June, 2013, had notified the West Bengal Free-ship Scheme (WBFS) extending the benefit of full and half tuition fee waivers to meritorious students from economically weak backgrounds admitted into undergraduate level engineering and technology courses in the Government Engineering Colleges, Engineering Departments of State-aided Universities and in those Private/ Self-financing Engineering and Technology Institutes in the State.

For the academic year 2014-15, the State Government has decided, to extend the provisions of the West Bengal Free-ship Scheme (WBFS) as notified vide no: 326-Edn/(T)/10M-70/2012 dated: 14th June, 2013. In so far as the Private/ Self- financing Engineering and Technology Institutes are concerned the conditions are given below:

I. Private/ Self-financing Engineering and Technology Institutes shall continue to provide Full Tuition Fee Waiver (full free-ship) to 10% of the admitted student in proportion to the number of admissions made under the management quota category.

II. The Private/ Self-financing Engineering and Technology Institutes implementing the fees as revised by the Fee Structure Committee for 2014 – 2015, will provide half free-ship to 10% of the students admitted in each of Engineering/ Pharmacy/ Architecture courses in the academic session 2014-15 during the entire course period, subject to their satisfactory academic performance in the Institution.

Corrigendum: Para II of No. 270-Edn dated 20.06.2014

The effective benefit under the various Tuition Fee Waiver Schemes in the State remains at twenty five percent of the total student strength comprising 5% under Tuition Fee Waiver (TFW), 10% Half free-ship under WBFS linked to the revised fee-structure and 10% Full free-ship linked to Management Quota (MQ) under West Bengal Free-ship Scheme.

Other provisions, including eligibility criteria, ‘income-certifying authority’ etc. of this Scheme shall continued to be guided by the Department’s Order no. 272-Edn (T) dated 1st July, 2011.

The Director of Technical Education, West Bengal is entrusted with the implementation and monitoring of the Scheme and he shall provide reports to the State Government at periodic intervals. Furthermore, the ‘income-certificate’ of the eligible and/or admitted students after physical verification by the WBJEE Board shall be accepted by the respective Institutes. In case of any discrepancy found by the Institute in the same, it should be informed to the Board with intimation to the Director of Technical Education, West Bengal.

Sd/- Secretary
Higher Education Department

No. 270-Edn dated 20.06.2014

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Filed Under: Higher Education Tagged With: TFW, WBFS

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  1. Mousumi Biswas says

    19/12/2014 at 10:13 pm

    Respected Sir,
    I am a student of B-TECH 2nd year of Computer Science & Engineering at Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology under West Bengal University of Technology..i had applied for WBFS as i belong to a very poor family..the income certificate was given by the Executive officer of Bongaon Municipality as per the instruction..i checked the list of students who have been selected for WBFS from Bikash Bhawan..i got Full Free scheme as per the list..college previously told me that i have got the WBFS..but now the college is refusing and telling me that i am not in the list..they dont even showing us the list..I have paid 1st sem fee 40,850..2nd sem fee 55000 and 3rd sem fee 39000 but unable to pay anymore..can u plz help me?? i have seen the list from Bikash Bhawan and i was in the list..now what can i do?? plz e-mail me on moubiswas1212@gmail.com

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  2. Sayantani Rana says

    22/09/2014 at 2:37 pm

    how do i get this form ??

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  3. Barun Sengupta says

    21/09/2014 at 7:39 am

    How I apply wbfs?

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  4. subrata barman says

    10/07/2014 at 9:25 pm

    I WANT ADMISSION PRIVATE ENGINEERING COLLEGE WITH MANAGEMENT QUOTA AND FULL TUITION FEE WEAVER (TFW). BECAUSE MY FAMILY INCOME LESS THAN 120000 PER YEAR.

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