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  • EAMCET WEB-BASED COUNSELLING No `quota rule’ irks students!

    EAMCET WEB-BASED COUNSELLING No `quota rule’ irks students !

    Due to lack of qu-ota, students said they lost out on seats in some of the best colleges in AP.

    Students are unhappy with the web-based Eamcet engineering counselling for not implementing the “reservation rule” even as the second phase of counselling is scheduled to begin from Tuesday, October 5.

    Complaints are pouring in from students and parents over the seat allotment list announced by Eamcet on September 25, after the first phase of counselling concluded. They said they had lost faith in the web-based counselling as it failed to allot seats based on merit or
    as per reserved quotas.

    They alleged that as a result of quotas not being followed, students eligible for the same had lost out on seats in some of the best colleges in the state. They cited instances where not a single seat has been allotted to Muslim students under BCE category in some of the top colleges.

    Other students complained
    that they were allotted seats in sub-standard colleges though their ranks rendered them eligible for seats in the best colleges. They, too, blamed “faulty” web-based counselling.

    In the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, which figures in the top-10 list of colleges, not a single seat was allotted to BC-E students in the civil engineering branch in the first phase of web-based counselling. BC-E students are eligible for four per cent of the 29 per cent quota prescribed for backward classes. Of the 20 seats allotted in the counselling, 14 went to
    OC candidates, one to BC-D and five to BC-B. Not a single seat was allotted to students from BC-A, BC-C, BC-E, SC and ST categories. No seats were allotted for special category students from NCC, CAP and sports categories.

    Angry and disappointed at the seats they have been allotted in the first phase of counselling, several students have decided to go in for the second phase in the hopes of getting a seat in a better college. Some want the web-based counselling cancelled. Eamcet officials said they will enquire into these complaints.

    Source: DC

  • Students give state colleges the miss!

    Students give state colleges the miss !

    Even though Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of professional colleges in the country, stu- dents here are making a bee- line for col- leges in other states.

    Oct. 3: Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of professional colleges in the country, yet, ironically, large numbers of its students are opting to pursue professional courses in other states.

    Universities and colleges are issuing migration certificates on a scale never seen before, a worrying trend for colleges, many of which have had to shut down for lack of students. The state government is concerned as it is losing hundreds of crores of rupees in revenue by way of affiliation fees and taxes on education.

    The migration of students to other states was common till the late 1990s. But as hundreds of professional colleges opened in the state after 1997, when the sector was thrown open to private
    players, migration levels fell significantly.

    This has changed again recently.

    As per official estimates, as many as 75,000 students, who qualified in the Eamcet engineering exam this year, migrated to other states to take admission in engineering courses. Another 25,000 students opted for management quota seats located in other states.

    Another 10,000 students opted for reputed deemed universities and centrallyfunded institutions and another 50,000 students opted for National Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Technology.

    Education officials and college managements are mystified about this outflow to others states when AP has more than enough seats in almost every course.

    The reasons are probably two-fold. The recent politi
    cal turmoil over bifurcation of the state, that spilled out onto the streets and involved students as well, may have made destinations in other states more attractive to students. More importantly, it is the poor quality of education offered in a majority of colleges that has been forcing parents and students to search for better alternatives outside the state.

    “The pass percentage in engineering, MBA and MCA courses has dipped to less than 20 per cent for the last three years. The results are worse in medical and dental colleges in the state.
    Permitting hundreds of colleges every year without the required faculty and infrastructure has started to show negative results. The largescale migration of students from the state this year is an indicator of how things will turn out for colleges in the state in the coming days,” said Prof. Bhanu Murthy of Osmania University.

    “I have examined several students who finished engineering courses in the state recently,” said Mr K.R.

    Vishwanath, a senior engineer in the irrigation department. “They lack subject knowledge and communication skills. Many are rushing to computer training and English-speaking classes to obtain necessary skills for employment after getting an engineering degree. This means they learnt nothing during the course period.” Thousands of students from East Godavari, West Godavari, Chittoor, Nellore and Visakhapatnam are studying in the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Tamil Nadu. This year, there were 15,000 more admissions from AP in VIT than last year.

    Source: DC

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