Income-Based Tuition Fee Remission for B.Tech. and B.Arch. Students (NIT Tiruchirappalli) 2026‑27

NIT Tiruchirappalli, known as NIT Trichy, lowers tuition for undergraduate students whose families earn less than Rs. 5 lakh a year. The Academic Office’s Fees Section runs the remission under an order of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) dated 24 June 2016. It covers B.Tech. and B.Arch. students in the General, OBC-NCL and General-EWS categories.

This is a remission of tuition, not a fee waiver, and the institute checks your papers again every year before it gives the reduction. Your income certificate must be valid for the session and carry the names of both the parent and the student.

What you get

The reduction applies to tuition only. In the 2025 admission batch structure, tuition is Rs. 62,500 for each semester. The share you pay back depends on family income:

These figures come from the 2025 batch structure. I could not open the 2026 fee structure, so check the rupee figures for your own batch before you pay.

Who can apply

• B.Tech. or B.Arch. students in the General, OBC-NCL or General-EWS category.
• Family income under Rs. 5 lakh a year. The form asks for the father’s gross annual income, the mother’s, and any other income, and then a combined total.
• An income certificate from the state or UT authority. Only a certificate from the authority named for your state in the institute’s annexure is accepted. In Tamil Nadu, that is the Taluk Office.
• SC, ST and PwD students: The 2025 batch structure lists a separate category for SC, ST and all PwD students, with no tuition fee shown.
• The notices I could read cover B.Tech. and B.Arch. students only.
• The official sources I read do not set a marks, age or domicile rule for this remission.

How to apply

For the July 2026-27 session, the institute’s fee circular set these steps.

1. Get an original family income certificate from your state or UT authority, verifiable online.
2. Submit the certificate through the Google form linked in the circular, to the Fees Section. The circular asks you to send the income certificate this way and to update the tuition amount in the Samarth portal before you pay.
3. Log in to the Samarth student portal and check that the remission amount shows before you pay.
4. Pay online or by NEFT challan. The institute accepts only online payments or NEFT payments made through the Samarth portal.

Part payments are not allowed. If you send the certificate after paying in full, the institute will not consider it for reimbursement. For payment trouble, write to fees@nitt.edu.

Documents you need

• The original family income certificate, issued by a state government authority. The 2024 notice required this original, not a photocopy.
• The application form for remission of tuition fee. It asks for the state that issued the certificate and the issuing authority.
• A fresh declaration with the certificate for each academic year. Students must produce a new declaration with the income certificate for each academic year.
• For the 2025 batch, the fee structure asked for the parental income certificate for the preceding financial year (2024-2025). Check which year your certificate must cover.

The July 2026-27 circular names the Google form but no documents list, so confirm the full list with the Fees Section.

How students are selected

The official sources describe a document check, not a merit ranking or seat quota. The Fees Section verifies the authenticity of the applications it receives within a fixed window. If the details you give do not match your documents, the claim is cancelled and the institute may take disciplinary action.

Renewal

The remission runs one academic year at a time. When your certificate expires, you must submit a new one to keep getting the remission. No remission applies to a semester in which you hold no valid certificate.

Important dates

• 30 April 2026: The institute issued the circular for payment of fees for the July 2026-2027 session.
• 1 May to 15 June 2026: fee payment without fine. Payment with a fine of Rs. 500 runs from 16 June to 30 June 2026, and with Rs. 1,000 from 1 July to 31 July 2026.
• 15 June 2026: MIS is blocked for students who have not paid by the last date.

Those dates have passed. I could not read the notice for students admitted in 2026, or find a date for the January session, so watch the institute notices page for the next circular.