Government gives the go-ahead for CAP
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With the government issuing a set of orders, the terms and conditions under which admissions to professional courses would take place this year have assumed greater clarity, writes G. MAHADEVAN.
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With the State government issuing orders according sanction to the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) for including professional colleges that entered into a fee-seat pact with the government in the Centralised Allotment Process (CAP) for 2008-09, the terms and conditions under which admissions to professional courses would take place this year have assumed greater clarity.
The government orders (GO) pertaining to MBBS, Ayurveda and nursing courses were issued in the evening of June 28.
The government has already announced an upward revision in the fee for the MBBS course in government colleges — it will now be Rs.25,000. The fee for the 50 per cent government seats in private self-financing colleges will be Rs.5,000 a year. The annual tuition fee for candidates belonging the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Eligible categories would be paid by the government at the rates fixed by the Fee Regulatory Committee. The admission to these seats would be made according to the principles of reservation in government colleges.
In institutions with minority status, 20 percent of the government seats will be filled from a list of students belonging to the community that established the college. The CEE shall prepare this list based on the inter-se merit of such students.
The final allotment shall be made on or before September 20, 2008.
If any student is not admitted due to any specific defect or for any other reason, the management shall intimate the same to the government and the government, in turn, will rectify the said defect, state the reasons for accepting the list or furnish a revised list from which the management is bound to admit candidates not later than 5 p.m. on September 25, 2008. After the said date the managements are free to fill the vacant seats. The government would have no claim over such seats and the ‘forfeited’ vacancy would be brought forward to the succeeding year as compensation.
The managements can fill 35 per cent of the total seats in the college.
The fee for these seats would be Rs.5.5 lakh a year and the refundable deposit, Rs.5 lakh. The rest –15 per cent – of the seats would be the NRI quota where the fee is Rs.9 lakh a year.
“The managements have agreed not to receive cash or kind other than specified as fee above.” the GO reads. If this agreement is not approved by the court or by any other competent authority, the managements are free to collect a uniform fee not exceeding Rs.2.6 lakh, the amount fixed by the Fee Regulatory Committee, from all students except those admitted in the NRI quota.
Ayurveda, Sidha
The GO on Ayurveda, Sidha courses specifies that the fee for the 50 per cent government seats in such colleges would be Rs.35,000. In 35 per cent of the seats, the admission will be on the basis of the merit list prepared according to the percentage of marks obtained for the optional subjects in the qualifying examinations, from among the candidates who have applied to the ‘member colleges.’ The fee for such seats would be Rs.90,000.
The fee for the 15 per cent NRI seats would be Rs.2 lakh. In the event that the agreement is not okayed by the courts or any other competent authority, the managementsare free to collect a uniform fee not exceeding Rs.50,000 from all students except those admitted under the NRI quota.
Nursing
The CEE will allot students to 50 per cent of the seats in the 23 colleges listed in the government order. In colleges with minority status, 20 per cent of such seats would be filled by the CEE from a list of students belonging to the community that established the college. The CEE shall ensure that all allotments to the above seats are completed before August 31, 2008.
The fee for the merit seats would be Rs.40, 000 a year. Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Eligible categories have to remit a token amount of Rs.100 while accepting the allotment. The fee for the management seats would be Rs.78,000. The fee for the NRI quota seats would be Rs.2 lakh. If this agreement is not ratified by the courts or by any other competent authority the managements are free to collect a uniform fee not exceeding Rs.59,000 from all students except those admitted under the NRI quota.
Engineering
Even though the initial impression that the government and the managements of private self-financing engineering colleges gave to public via media persons was that there would be no refundable deposit for any category of seats, the final version of the agreement signed between the government and the managements allows the latter scope for collecting a refundable deposit of Rs.1.5 lakh.
In their final meeting with Education Minister M.A. Baby on June 24 the managements took the position that there would be no pact if they had no flexibility on the refundable deposit issue. Now, as per the agreement – when this article was being prepared, the GO on engineering allotment was yet to be issued – the managements can collect a maximum of Rs.90,000 a year from each student admitted to the 35 per cent management quota. They, however, also have the option of fixing the fee at a maximum of Rs.75,000 a year and collecting a refundable deposit of Rs.1.5 lakh. For a management that fixes the fee at Rs.75,000 and collects the deposit, the effective fee per student for the management quota would be Rs.90,000.
For the 50 per cent merit seats the fee would be Rs.30,750. There would be no deposit for such seats.
The association of the managements of private self-financing engineering colleges has demanded that students opting to study in such colleges be allowed one allotment and one re-allotment only. The government had agreed to this. In other words, if there is more than one re-allotment, that procedure would not apply to private self-financing engineering colleges.
“In repeated rounds of re-allotment, the students who get allotted to government colleges or government-controlled colleges opt to move out from the self-financing colleges. Naturally, the fee is lower there. But then we are left high and dry as hundreds of seats remain vacant in our colleges,” president of the Association G.P.C. Nayar told The Hindu EducationPlus.
Delay in CAP process?
This year the fact that the Health Department issued GOs for allotments pertaining to medicine and allied courses and that Department of Higher Education looked after the engineering allotments led to some delay on the part of the government in issuing all the GOs necessary for the CEE to go ahead with the CAP. Once all the GOS are in place the CEE would require some time to get the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to finalise the software that would carry out the allotments. Then the web site and the ‘window’ for registering course-college options has to be specified and students given at least a week for this process. These many days would also give the office of the CEE time to carry out ‘trial allotments’.
Anyhow the first allotment for medical courses would have to be done by July 17, 2008 as mandated by the Medical Council of India.
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