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  • AP engineering colleges staring at empty classes


    AP engineering colleges staring at empty classes!

    HYDERABAD : There are not many takers for the state’s engineering colleges with just about 99,000 of the 1.42 lakh students who got admission in the first round of counselling actually joining the colleges as on Tuesday. This would mean that out of 1.82 lakh engineering seats on offer in the convener (merit) quota, only 54 per cent have been filled so far. Officials now speculate that with 46 per cent of the total number of merit seats lying vacant even at the fag end of the first phase of engineering counselling, several engineering colleges might have to shut shop.

    Last year, at the end of the first phase of counselling only 4,630 seats of 1.5 lakh seats on offer were left vacant. If there were 654 colleges last year, there are 692 now and the number of seats have gone up by 30,000.

    Officials blame poor quality of technical education in the state as the key reason for so many seats to have remained vacant even as they note that many students have taken admission in engineering colleges of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, giving AP a miss. Analysts note that the ‘T’ trouble brewing in the state is another factor that has led to this brain drain from AP.

    Engineering colleges in the state are turning to desperate measures to fill their seats. Sources note that several college managements have commissioned agents who would tamper with web counselling forms. According to officials of Andhra Pradesh State Council of Technical Education ( APSCHE), several students were duped by agents who deliberately changed their choice of preferred college in the web form. Officials said that agents are making a neat Rs 5,000 for every seat they are managing to fill in the college that has appointed them.

    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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