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  • Engg colleges hire agents to get students

    Engg colleges hire agents to get students!

    HYDERABAD : “The number of students who had come for engineering counselling this year was less than the total number of engineering seats. Hence the colleges have hired agents. We suspect even helpers and data operators at e-seva centres must have colluded with colleges to get students to opt for their colleges,” said M D Christopher, secretary, APSCHE. The agent also takes a token amount from the students’ parents for filling up of the online web counselling `college option form’. Over a 100 new engineering colleges that have come up in the recent past seem to be the least favourite among students, say officials.

    Meanwhile, on a positive note, the officials of APSCHE said that most of the admissions in engineering colleges take place on the last day for reporting to colleges. “We expect more students to take admissions on Wednesday,” they said.

    Christopher, however, added that the students taking admission in the second phase of engineering counselling which began on Tuesday should opt for as many colleges as possible for there could be vacancies even in the top most engineering colleges. “Even though a seat might not be available in web counselling currently it might fall vacant after Wednesday,” he said.

    Source: Times of India

  • Stipend for engineering, science students hiked by 33percent

    New Delhi: In a move that comes as good news for research scholars across the country, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has decided to hike the monthly stipend of students in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other central science and engineering schools by 33 percent.

    The decision that was communicated by the ministry to all institutions will ensure that pursuing postgraduate studies and research in sciences and engineering will become more lucrative for students.

    Not only students from the IITs, but also from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) will be benefited by the massive hike.

    According to the letter sent to the HRD ministry to the Directors of the institutions, the revision in the stipend rate will also be applicable to other government and government aided institutions that are funded by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) as well as the University Grants Commission (UGC).

    Students who graduated from undergraduate B.Tech programmes at the IITs with a cumulative grade point average of above 8 and those who clear the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) had earlier received Rs.12,000 per month during their PG research..

    This stipend had now been increased to Rs.16,000. Also, PG degree holders in basic sciences and students who have qualified in the National Eligibility Test (NET) will now be given Rs.18,000 a month till their fifth year of Ph.D. research.

    Students who already have hold PG degrees in engineering will also receive Rs.18,000 a month for the first two years of research and Rs.20,000 a month for the next two years.

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