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Managements make scholarship offer

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50 per cent fee concession for merit students from poor families

KOCHI: The Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College Managements' Association has offered 50 per cent of the tuition fee as scholarship to candidates seeking admission in the merit category whose annual family income is less than Rs. 60,000.

The offer is for up to 10 per cent of the candidates in the category.

The decision was taken after a meeting here on Monday in which managers of all the 52 self-financing engineering colleges in the State participated.

President of the association G.P.C. Nayar said the State Entrance Commissioner should forward a list of deserving students to the managements. This was to ensure transparency in selecting candidates for the scholarship.

He said the State Government fixed the income limit of Rs. 60,000 in 2003-04 for students to be eligible for fee concession in self-financing colleges. "There was 100 per cent consensus among managements on extending 50 per cent scholarship to deserving students," Mr Nayar said.

He said the managements were concerned at the deteriorating social situation because of agitations called by different student bodies on the fee issue. "Based on the Supreme Court order, we are accepting Rs. 38,700 as the annual fee. Another verdict of the court is expected on the fee structure and admission process, in a week," he said, adding that no untoward incident had been reported on Monday in any self-financing engineering college.

"Self-financing colleges offer good infrastructure compared with even Government colleges. With colleges competing with one another, students will prefer only those which offer quality infrastructure," he said.

On why nearly 6,000 seats in self-financing engineering colleges remained vacant last academic year, he said that this was because of the delay in admission process.

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