Huge demand for owner quota

Aug 25, 2012 |

Hyderabad

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The state government is facing a tricky situation over adopting online admissions for management quota seats in engineering colleges.

The Cabinet sub-committee recently came out with this proposal to ensure merit and to bring transparency in management quota admissions besides checking sale of seats by collecting huge donations up to Rs 15 lakh by some prominent colleges.

There is a huge demand for management quota seats only in top-50 colleges, most of which are allotted to kith and kin of politicians, industrialists, businessmen, film stars etc. Irrespective of merit in Eamcet or Inter exams though norms stipulate that the managements should ensure merit and transparency while filling these seats.

All the top colleges are flooded with recommendation letters right from the Chief Minister’s Office to ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and senior bureaucrats who seek seats for their wards or for wards of their relatives and friends.

Taking advantage of this fact, college managements have taken the stand that if online admissions are introduced this year, they will not be in a position to allot seats for “recommendation candidates” and it will be their wards who will lose seats on account of the new method of admission.

Since the new method insists on transparency and allotment of seats based on merit, it will not be possible to allot seats to “recommended” students by denying admissions to meritorious students, which may lead to legal tangles. Now, the government has suddenly stopped talking about “online admissions” for management quota admissions.

Earlier, the deputy chief minister Damodar Raja Narasimha, who also holds the portfolio of higher education, had said that the government will appoint an official for each college, who will monitor admissions made by the college in the management quota to ensure transparency.

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