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  • No takers for MCA, MBA seats.

    Around 159 MCA colleges which had no admissions after the first phase of ICET counselling are in danger of closure unless they can fill their seats during the second phase which ends on Tuesday.

    According to the AP State Council of Higher Education, after the end of first phase counselling, 159 MCA colleges out of 634 colleges including 43 university colleges got no admissions. Out of a total of 31,181 MCA convener quota seats available, only 9,443 seats were filled up and 21,738 seats remained vacant after the first phase of counselling. Out of the total 634 colleges, only 129 MCA colleges got 100 per cent admissions. APSCHE chairman P Jayaprakash Rao told Express they were not the competent authority to take a decision to shut down colleges which got poor admissions. Rao said it is up to the All India Council for Technical Education to take a decision.

    Though the MBA colleges fared better, a large chunk of MBA seats were still vacant after the first phase of counselling. Nine out of 937 MBA colleges including 51 university colleges got no admissions. 23,141 MBA seats out of 62,860 seats in the convener quota remained vacant after the first phase.

    Source : The New Indian Express

  • There shall be uniform fee for all the students- A.P High Court.

    A Division Bench of the AP High Court comprising Justice Goda Raghu Ram and Justice P. Durga Prasad quashed the notifications issued by the State government in August 2010 pertaining to the fee to be paid by students in private engineering colleges.

    The Bench said that there shall be uniform fee for all the students in a college except for the NRI quota. The judgment covers unaided colleges offering engineering, MBA, MCA, and Pharmacy courses.

    They said that by fixing separate fee for A and B categories, one set of students were forced to subsidise the other, which was constitutionally impermissible.

    At present, the fee for A category seats in private engineering college is Rs.30,000 and nearly Rs.90,000 for B category. This, the Bench said, amounted to cross subsidy and was unconstitutional. The Bench permitted the AFRC to recommend and the State government to notify a higher fee for students admitted into 15 per cent quota for NRIs. This fee shall be deposited in a separate bank account to be employed for the benefit of students from economically weaker sections.

    The government is to notify the fee structure in March of the preceding academic year. The court directed the State to notify the fee structure proposals for academic years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 & 2012-2013 within three months.

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