| Saturday, June 21, 2008
Government, management quotas to be decided soon
Chennai: The government hopes to settle the issue of the government
and management quotas in self-financing engineering colleges
within the next few days, according to Higher Education Secretary
K. Ganesan.
The government has proposed a ratio of 65 per cent of seats
in the government quota, with the remaining 35 per sent of seats
in the management quota. However, many college managements want
a higher percentage within their control. Some of them have
pointed to a Supreme Court judgement that would allow them control
over all the seats in their colleges.
“I am holding discussions with the college management
representatives and I think that it will work out soon…in
a few days’ time,” Mr. Ganesan said.
Time is running short, as the counselling for government quota
seats begins on July 3. In fact, Mr. Ganesan participated in
the first step of the process on Friday, as the Tamil Nadu Engineering
Admission authorities allotted random numbers to all applicants.
These numbers will be the final decider in a tie-break situation.
In fact, the government is increasing the seats under its own
control this year by starting six new government engineering
colleges in the State.
“We have identified temporary buildings to accommodate
the colleges for this year,” said Mr. Ganesan, adding
that the search is on for hostel buildings as well.
However, the biggest hunt is for faculty to teach in the new
colleges. While the respective Anna Universities have issued
advertisements for the new faculty, Mr. Ganesan said that existing
University staff have also been offered the option to move to
these new colleges.
Clarification on banks
With regard to the plan allowing first year students to pay
their fees through banks, as reported in The Hindu on Friday,
Mr. Ganesan clarified that the selected banks are the State
Bank of India, Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank, Karur Vysya Bank
and Indian Bank.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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