Click to play videoChennai: “Shut down all the 34 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu” — that's a recommendation that has come from the DMK government to the All India Council For Technical Education.
Reason? The DMK chief allegedly trying to settle his personal scores with his rival politicians in the state. And he doesn’t care whether that comes at the cost of the career of thousands of students.
In Tamil Nadu there are 34 engineering colleges, which are owned by politicians who are known opponents of the DMK.
AIADMK loyalist and education baron Jeppiaar is DMK’s worst rival who owns Jeppiaar Engineering College, Panimalar Engineering College and St Joseph's Engineering College in the state. One more college on the list is Andal Azhagar College in Chennai owned by actor turned MLA Vijaykanth—a lone but strong opponent of the DMK government. The actor's marriage hall was earlier demolished the DMK chief.
And now all these colleges fear closure.
However the DMK government says that the move comes after some raids that were conducted by the state higher education department on these engineering colleges. The government says that it received complaints from students about high capitation fees being charged by the colleges.
Whatever may be reason, but it’s the students who are to bear the brunt of Tamil Nadu’s political rivalries at the end of the day.
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