The Lok Satta Party today demanded immediate cancellation of web counseling and its replacement by personal counseling for admission to engineering colleges to ward off avoidable inconvenience and troubles to students and parents.
Talking to the media, party spokesmen Katari Srinivsa Rao and V. Laxman Balaji said that under web counseling students are thrown into confusion, as they have to choose out of 3000 options in 577 of the 641 engineering colleges.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao, an assistant professor in an engineering college and Mr. Laxman Balaji, an engineer, pointed out that for want of Internet facility, rural students are forced to come to urban areas and stay there for days on end merely to take part in web counseling. If there is disruption in power supply during registration, the students have to repeat the process right from the beginning. The process is playing havoc with the future of students.
The Lok Satta leaders said that there are a number of engineering colleges without the basic infrastructure and teaching faculty. Some college managements are openly selling seats for up to Rs.10 lakh each. The Government should ensure that the seats under the NRI and management quotas are filled as per strict and transparent norms.
The spokesmen said the AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education), which encouraged proliferation of engineering colleges even without basic amenities, did not bother about maintenance of standards in them. A solution lay in total decentralization of the AICTE, they said.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Cancel web counseling, demands Lok Satta
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Web councelling has to be cancelled. But this is one part of the work. The other work as to address this line "If there is disruption in power supply during registration, the students have to repeat the process right from the beginning. The process is playing havoc with the future of students."
ReplyDeleteBut some how I feel it was good whatever happened to students with havocs. As they can know the reality of the society. And the engineers should know what to study , what to be implemented in their future years. And take this challenge of improving things.
i am student participating in web counselling in eamcet . I am frustated with the web counselling in the first day itself because the servers are very slow .It takes a lot of time to save option please fight for this issue
ReplyDeleteyeah web councelling needs to be banned..its really creating havoc n unnecessary stress among both the students and their parents. the most important thing is that this way of allocation of seats lacks transparency...there is an increased probability of scandals n scams.. these people dont even specify the algorithm they follow in allocation of seats..
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