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Managements to fix own fee in 50 per cent seats

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50% of the seats to be set apart for Government quota

KOCHI: The Self-Financing Engineering College Managements' Association has rejected the Fee Regulatory Committee's proposal to collect only an annual tuition fee of Rs.38,700 in management seats available under various private engineering colleges in the State.

A general body meeting of the managements held here on Monday decided to collect its own fee in the 50 per cent management seats.

Managements had earlier proposed a fee structure ranging between Rs.50,000 and Rs.75,000 in all seats available under each college. The committee, headed by the former judge P.A. Mohammed, had turned down their proposal and fixed an annual tuition fee of Rs.38,700 in 100 per cent seats.

Admission to the seats in the management quota would now be done on the basis of a rank list prepared by combining the marks in Plus Two and the score in the entrance test conducted by the State Commissioner of Entrance Examinations. Each private engineering college would publish its own rank list for the 50 per cent management seats.

Association president G.P.C. Nayar said that 50 per cent of the remaining seats would be handed over to the Government. The annual tuition fee in seats under the Government quota would be Rs.38,700.

Mr. Nayar said that the Government should restrict students seeking admission under the Government quota to exercise only a single option while selecting a private engineering college of their choice.

The usual practice of exercising several options (of institutions) created problems for managements last year, as students were found migrating to other engineering colleges by exercising the provision of higher option, he said.

The association urged the Government to remit the Rs.38,700 annual tuition fee proposed in seats under the Government quota at the respective private engineering college selected by a student.

Mr. Nayar requested the authorities to implement the reservation norms before sending the final list of candidates to be admitted under the 50 per cent Government quota. The Government had to forward the list before the first week of August, he said.

Private engineering colleges under Muslim managements requested the Government to allocate 10 per cent of seats out of the total 50 (Government quota) for students belonging to their community. The remaining 40 per cent should be filled as per the statutory reservation norms, they said.

Catholic managements

The Kerala Catholic Engineering College Managements Association has decided to admit students in 100 per cent seats in nine engineering colleges affiliated to it by adopting its own admission procedure. Association president Philip Njaralakatt said that it would not be handing over any seat to the Government.

He said that 40 per cent of the seats would be reserved for students belonging to the Christian community. Out of this, 5 per cent would be reserved for Dalit Christians, 2 per cent for Latin Catholics and 15 per cent for the NRI category. Five per cent of the seats would be reserved for students belonging to the SC/ST category.

Engineering colleges under the association would collect an annual tuition fee ranging between Rs.50,000 and Rs.62,000.

The managements would not collect any fee from 10 students in the below poverty line category in each college, he said.

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