JNTU RESULTS

Posted: 21 Aug 2011 01:58 AM PDT

Overcapacity and poor teaching have led to a situation where a huge number of seats in engineering colleges are going begging because applicants have not been able to attain the cut-off marks of 45 per cent required for admission.

With nearly 80,000 seats going vacant after the recent first phase of Eamcet engineering counselling, the managements of engineering colleges are lobbying hard with the State government to reduce the cut-off marks in 10+2 (Intermediate) exams to 35 per cent from the present 45 per cent.

The managements have been trying to bring pressure on the government to write to the All India Council for Technical Education urging it to reduce the cut-off marks to save hundreds of colleges from closure. About 256 colleges across the State face the risk of closure as they recorded admissions of less than 100.

The managements are also planning to meet Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in a couple of days and urge his intervention.

Some managements are already in touch with Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Rajanara-simha, who also holds the portfolio of higher education.

The managements ar-gue that several reserved quota students particularly from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes cannot pursue engineering courses because they have not got the required marks.

The AICTE had for the first time introduced minimum cut-off marks for engineering admissions from this year in January 2011. It fixed cut-off marks of 50 per cent for open category students and 45 per cent for reserved quota students.

However, bowing to pressure from several States, it later reduced the cut-off marks to 45 per cent and 40 per cent respectively.

But so poor is the standard of education that students have not been able to attain even these marks and hence the pressure to lower standards further.

About 50,000 students will be eligible for admission if the cut-off marks are reduced to 35 per cent for all students. Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of colleges in the country, with the number crossing 700 this year.

About 78,596 engineering seats are vacant after the first phase of seat allotment was announced on August 14. Of the total 2,12,896 seats available in the Eamcet convener's quota (SW-I) in 681 colleges, only 1,34,300 seats were filled.

Source : DC

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Few takers for management quota seats in BE colleges.

Posted: 21 Aug 2011 12:32 AM PDT

Few takers for management quota seats in BE colleges.

HYDERABAD: Engineering seats under management quota are the lowest priced commodity in the state’s educational business scene this year. The management quota seats in engineering colleges are priced lower than the convener quota seats where the fee is about Rs 31,000. Several colleges which used to ‘sell’ their management seats charging a hefty donation of about Rs 7 to 8 lakh per student have slashed their management quota fees to a meager Rs 20,000 to 50,000 per annum as a majority of these seats are left vacant as of now.

While colleges like Shadan Group have come up with advertisements stating that students could pay about Rs 31,000 to take admission in their management seats, others like S V Group of Colleges and Swathi Institute of Technology and Sciences have offered free hostel and transport facilities to attract students. Other colleges which are selling their seats for fees lower than the prescribed Rs 95,000 per annum are CMR, Bharath, Malla Reddy and Gurunanak group of colleges. Some of the colleges, including Younis Sultan College of Engineering, SSIT, Dundigal, Ellanki College, Lingapally and Hasvita Institution are offering their management quota seats for anywhere between Rs 15,000 and Rs 50,000. Interestingly, all these colleges have sent their new tariffs to prospective students via SMSs for fresh enrolments.

The colleges have slashed their fees as about 80,000 seats are left vacant under the convener quota (merit seats) even as the first phase of Eamcet counselling got over this week. Usually, management quota seats that form 30 per cent of the total number of seats (2.81 lakh) in the state get filled if students fail to get admission under convener quota.

Consultants hired by engineering colleges to sell off their seats say that many of the top colleges in the state, including CVSR College, Nallamalla Reddy College and Siddhartha College, the seats of which used to get filled within 10 days of announcement of admissions, are lying vacant even now. “Some of the streams, including IT, mechanical and civil engineering have few takers in these colleges this year,” said a hired consultant of Manikanta Educational Consultancy. The consultancies are also hunting for SC, ST and BC students this year as admitting students from these categories would ensure grants from the state government. “A management quota seat for a regular B Sc degree in a reputed college would range between Rs 40,000 to Rs 55,000. And unlike the engineering college seats the value of these courses have not dipped so drastically,” said an educationist.

Source : TOI

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