Dear Editor,
Higher education in India is directly linked to the size of one’s pocket. Students from rural areas taking the recent Joint Engineering Entrance (JEE) for admission to NITs and other institutions were the main sufferers due to lack of coaching facilities in these areas. They are not conversant with the admission process and pattern of examination. Nor are they aware of filling choices online. Due to this handicap, they are forced to take admission in institutions which charge double the fee of NITs and IIITs.
This year, the CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) had registered many self-financing /deemed universities and technical institutions to admit candidates for B.Tech courses. The CSAB sponsored the candidates as per merit in the examination. However, these so-called good institutions do not follow norms of reservation and fee structure like the NITs and other government institutions.
The question is how did these institutions get registered with the CSAB? How is that a candidate sponsored by the CSAB to an NIT has to pay only around Rs 4 lakh for a BTech degree whereas another qualified candidate sponsored by the same board to a self-financed engineering institute has to pay more than Rs 8 lakh for the same degree? The All-Indian Council for Technical Education should save the rural students from such exploitation.
Sushma Kumari
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