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Thursday, Mar 20, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Mar 20, 2003 |
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Education Bangalore professional colleges filling up seats — State urged to enact Bill to streamline admission Our Bureau
BANGALORE, March 19 AS students aspiring for admissions in professional colleges are faced with uncertainty over the quantum of seats that would be available for merit and the proportion to be allotted for payment seats, some colleges appear to have set their own criteria and fee structure, thus queering the pitch on the outcome of the efforts being made by the State Government to resolve the tangle before the admission schedule. According to Mr Veerappa Moily, former Chief Minister and Chairman of Revenue Reforms Commission, an engineering college management in Bangalore is collecting an initial deposit from students on setting their own criteria of qualifying marks percentage and the fee to admit students in engineering course. The college is understood to be collecting an initial deposit amount of Rs 50,000 from students seeking a seat for the next academic session. Those who have paid, have to obtain marks above 80 per cent in their pre-university grade. The institution has fixed an initial amount of Rs 8 lakh and Rs 9 lakh respectively for those scoring 90 per cent and less than 90 per cent in the PUC grade. Mr Moily, who had made a mention in his note circulated recently on the ongoing controversy between the Government and the private professional colleges on admissions, said it was an indication of the private colleges' stance on the issue and they may not wait for the Government to send candidates through the Common Entrance Test (CET). This will affect the middle and poor classes of the society, he said. He added that there was an urgent need to resolve the issue to prevent distortions in the admission policy. Mr Moily, who had suggested that the State Government should enact a legislation to end the controversy over the who had unsuccessfully tried to pilot a Bill in 1995 to streamline the admission issue to the professional colleges had suggested then that the power should remain with the Government with regard to classification of private professional colleges for regulating admission and power to apportion seats in private professional colleges. He had also suggested that the State Government should constitute a fund called the Karnataka Professional Colleges Development Fund for contribution towards the expenses relating to capital expenditure incurred for development of any professional college; improvement of the infrastructure and teaching aids and equipment in any such college and such other related investments. The fund, thus collected would have helped in reducing the pressure on the demand for capitation fee. The fund could have been raised from grants or contributions from the State Government and or the Central Government, donations or contributions from individuals and organisations.
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