KOCHI: Colleges under the Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College Managements Association will not conduct tests or interviews for admitting students next academic year.

Students finding a place in the merit list brought out by the Commissionerate of Entrance Examinations (CEE), based on their performance in the entrance examination conducted by it, can apply for admission to these colleges. Admission will be based on the marks obtained in the public examinations for classes 10 and 12 and the entrance examination conducted by the CEE. The fee will be restructured on the basis of what the Government spends on each engineering student.

These decisions were taken at a meeting here on Tuesday.

It is believed that the Government spends about Rs.11 crore a year on engineering students, which means roughly Rs. 74,000 on each of them, G.P.C. Nayar, president of the association, said.

"We will ask the Government to provide the details of the expenditure on each student by using the Right to Information Act." The fee would be based on this information. It was likely that the fee would be less than what the Government spent, Dr. Nayar said. An engineering college could not be run on the meagre fee that the Government charged a student. It was pointless to have such a fee structure and then have the shadow of capitation fee.

Admission to various engineering streams would be based purely on the marks obtained in the two public examinations and the entrance test. The association had decided not to have interviews, as there was always a chance of influencing the people on the interview Board, he said.

Representatives of 46 self-financing engineering colleges attended the meet.

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