hyderabad conveying a note of disapproval over the way the telangana admission and fee regulatory committee tafrc was functioning the hyderabad high court on friday lamented that a structure that was created to insulate students and parents from exploitation at the hands of profiteering educational institutions is actually making them to bear the brunt of the problem the bench of chief justice t b radhakrishnan and justice ramesh ranganathan made this observation while hearing two appeals filed by the telangana higher education and the tafrc which were questioning the decision of a single judge who allowed high fee structures for hyderabad based vasavi engineering college and srinidhi institute of science and technology while the tafrc fixed rs 97000 as the fee per annum the single judge heard the objections of the colleges and allowed them to raise the fee to rs 160 lakh per annum in respect of vasavi and rs137 lakh for srinidhi m ravindranath reddy the counsel for the two colleges told the court that though the supreme court and the high court have made it clear in the past that the colleges which run on their own without taking any aid or assistance from the state have the liberty to effect raise in their fee structures in tune with their infrastructure the actions of the officials are proving out to be a huge hindrance in the way of the private colleges the fee regulatory committee is supposed to have five members but in telangana it has ten members and none of them participate in the committee meetings chairman decides the agenda and even make decisions and the members affix their signatures as if they are the decisions of the committee even those decisions are not conveyed to the colleges on time this is forcing us to run around courts at the time of admissions because the committees decisions reach us only on the eve of commencement of counseling ravindranath said he also said that the duty of the fee regulation committee is not to determine the fee their mandate is to ensure that these private colleges do not indulge in profiteering he saidtafrc counsel abhishek reddy said that the fee fixation is done taking inflation into consideration if this aspect is removed from the zone of consideration then the fee would be far lesser he said adding that these colleges are using bouncers to coerce parents and students at the time of collecting feesthe bench wondered whether the tafrc has any defined procedure to perform its duties referring to a meeting of tafrc supposedly held on january 6 2018 it sought to know from the tafrc counsel as to why the meeting was held by the chairman alone why was the minutes of the meeting conveyed to the colleges by a consultant who is he why are the signatures of the other members of this multimember body obtained later why are the minutes of the committee so hollow parents and students have to carry the failures of