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| Saturday, March 08, 2008
Private engineering colleges urged to follow 65-35 admission
norm
Minister hopes engineering admissions will go off smoothly
this year
- Private college managements want fee hike
- He gives conditional assurance
CHENNAI: Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy has appealed to
private engineering colleges to follow the admission norms that
were in force last year.
After a protracted legal battle last year, 65 per cent of the
seats were given to the government quota and the remaining 35
per cent filled by the college managements. “I hope this
year the engineering admissions will go off smoothly,”
Mr. Ponmudy told The Hindu. “We have been working on this
for the past few weeks.”
He had held extensive discussions with allies of the Democratic
Progressive Alliance and representatives of the managements
of the colleges. The allies were of the firm view that the number
of seats in the government quota should be the same as last
year while the managements wanted the government to consider
at least a fee increase for students who were admitted in the
management quota.
Mr. Ponmudy said the government was willing to consider the
demands if they confirmed that they would admit 65 per cent
of the students through the State government’s single
window counselling system. “They have made a few demands.
We can consider them provided they listen to us on this issue,”
he said.
Higher Education Department officials were of the view that
the government was sympathetic on the question of increasing
the fee. This would also mean that the practice of some private
engineering colleges providing students a receipt for a lower
amount than they had paid would stop.
“If the student is taking a loan for his studies, it would
help if the entire amount is shown. This is not the case as
we have found out in some cases,” one informed source
said.
Mr. Ponmudy warned of severe action against managements that
collected fee over and above what was prescribed by the government.
He said complaints from students or their parents on fees would
be taken seriously by his department.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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