New Delhi: Human Resource Development Ministry will bring a new bill to stop the menace capitation fees in medical and engineering colleges. The bill proposes stern action against the guilty institutions. Despite opposition by Bihar and other states, the Central Government has stuck to his decision to implement the Right to Education Act by March 31, 2013.
Under this law action will be taken against the guilty institutions and they a fine of Rs 10 lakh would be imposed. A resolution passed at the 60th meeting of the Central Advisory Board Of Education made it clear that the Right to Education Act would be implemented across the country by March 31. Many states including Bihar have objected to the implementation of the Act, saying that poor states wont be able to afford the expenses.
Moreover, the share of Central and state governments have not yet been fixed. Bihar and several other states say that the Act should not be implemented till the share of spending between the Centre and the states is finalised.
But the Central Government said that the required work for implementing the Act would be completed by March 31. The recommendations of the JS Verma Committee on maintaining the quality of teachers has been accepted. JS Verma has recommended that from time to time teachers orientation programme should be undertaken so that they are fully up to date about their subjects....
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12:58 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Vizag: In a tragic incident in Andhra Pradesh, six students of the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) University have drowned in Vizag. The mishap occurred when a group of first year students had gone to the famous Rishikonda Beach on Wednesday evening. Though the locals had managed to rescue one young male student from being swept away by strong ocean currents, they failed to save the others. As...
04:04 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: An MP from Karnataka has allegedly constructed an engineering college on a field firing range in Belgaum belonging to the army, which is already facing shortage of these practice fields for training its personnel. Sources said Angadi Institute of Technology and Management has not got 'No Objection Certificate' (NOC) from civil or military authorities. Defence Minister AK Antony has also sent two letters to the MP who has...
08:10 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Bangalore: The number of the complaints against engineering and medical colleges regarding excess fee demanded from students has shot up. The one man regulatory committee which oversees admission related problems in medical, dental and engineering colleges, has issued notices to 50 engineering colleges and 15 medical colleges for demanding excess fee from students who have been issued admission orders by Karnataka Examination Authority(KEA). However, of the 50 engineering colleges, only...
01:28 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Hyderabad: Ministers Danam Nagender and Mukesh Goud, who have lately become partners in dissent, on Tuesday distanced themselves from the government's proposal to cap the reimbursement of tuition fee of engineering students at Rs 31,0000 per annum. Their ruse? It goes against the interests of backward class students. As for student parties, they have hit the warpath all over the state against the fee reimbursement cap. In the forefront, the...
02:55 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Kunnam: Ten migrant labourers working at the construction site of an engineering college near Sunguvarchatram in Kancheepuram district died after wall and ceiling of an under-construction stadium collapsed. Police said 17 migrant labourers from Odisha were involved in the construction of a basketball stadium for the past two weeks at Kunnam village, about 70 kilometres from Chennai. Around 3 pm, portions of the outer wall, pillar and ceiling collapsed, crushing...
10:34 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Coimbatore: The State Government has decided to once again challenge the higher minimum eligibility marks fixed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for admission into engineering colleges. Higher Education Minister P Palaniappan told Express on Sunday that soon, his Department would file an appeal before a Division Bench of the Madras High Court. This year, the AICTE had mandated that only students with a minimum aggregate score...
12:14 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Hyderabad: The deadlock on EAMCET engineering counselling is unlikely to be resolved soon as the final decision for a revised fee-structure has been referred to a nine-member cabinet committee by the chief minister. Contrary to the governments statement on starting the counselling by August 6, official sources say that a final decision will be reached only by August 10 and counselling may be delayed to mid-August. After the petition filed...
02:54 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Hyderabad: The state government is all set to effect a steep fee hike - in the range of 40 to 150 per cent - in professional colleges after Friday. The hike would be for both convener and management quota seats. But in a move that will put the burden on students from economically weaker sections, the cash-strapped government is also thinking of putting a ceiling on the fee reimbursement scheme...
02:47 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Bhopal: The state Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) of Madhya Pradesh has extended the last date for locking the choice of colleges in engineering. Students aspiring for a seat in engineering colleges of the state were earlier given till July 5 to make their choice. The directorate will release a notification soon to this effect which will give the new 'last date'. The decision was taken at a counselling committee...
10:17 AM, Jul 06, 2012
New Delhi: After facing opposition from the IITs, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is trying to seek support from deemed universities on his controversial common entrance test. Sibal will meet the representatives of 130 universities on Monday to get them on board for his one nation, one test plan. Earlier, the IIT directors on Saturday discussed a compromise formula which includes a proposal to take top 20-30 students based on percentile...
09:50 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Sanjeev Sanghi, President, Faculty Forum-IIT Delhi, says they want the Prime Minister to intervene and have sought an appointment with him. ...
03:02 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Faculty Federation and Alumni Associations of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have accused Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal of disregarding the senates' concerns about the new format. They want the Prime Minister to intervene and are pushing for an appointment with him this Thursday. The President of the Faculty Federation, AK Mittal, said, "We've been in talks with the minister, but he disregarded what the...
10:25 AM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) results for 2012 are expected to be declared on Friday, June 1. Over 11 lakh students across the country are anxiously waiting for the same. Candidates can go to http://aieee.nic.in/aieee2012/aieee/welcome.html to check out their results. The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) is conducted to screen candidates for admission into various engineering courses offered by the National Institute of Technology (NITs)....
12:46 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. ...
11:36 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. The councils of the IITs, NITs and IIITs on Monday decided to have joint entrance test for engineering colleges that come under these three councils. According to the decision taken, for the first time, the class XII examinations will count towards entrance. There will be...
04:56 PM, May 28, 2012
COIMBATORE: The availability of BE/BTech seats in Tamil Nadu is all set to shoot past the 2.65 lakh mark this year with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) allowing existing engineering colleges to add an additional 40,000 seats in undergraduate courses. The apex regulatory agency for technical education has sanctioned the increased intake of students at a time when nearly 65,000 out of the total 2.26 lakh BE/BTech...
09:22 AM, May 18, 2012
HYDERABAD: The number of applicants for post-graduate engineering courses has nearly doubled this year and lack of jobs seems to be only one of the reasons for the growing interest in M.tech courses.About 68,000 applied for PGECET-2012 (Post Graduate Engineering Common Entrance Test) by April 23, the last date for submission of applications. Last year the number of applicants were 37,000.More applications are likely to come as there is still...
11:14 AM, May 01, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Consortium of Professional Colleges Managements Association on Tuesday served an ultimatum to the state government demanding release of funds under the fee reimbursement scheme.Consortium president N Ramesh said they would not allow students to sit for semester examinations scheduled to held from April 28 if the government did not release the money as per its earlier promise.Till the first week of February the government had not paid a...
08:26 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Kannur: A first year aeronautical engineering student from the Kannur district in Kerala died in a private hospital in Bangalore of injuries sustained after allegedly being ragged by his seniors. The boy, a student of Chikkabellapur Shahib Engineering College, died at the hospital last night after battling burn injuries for eight days, family sources said. Ajmal was admitted to Victoria hospital on March 22 with 60 per cent burn injuries....
03:12 PM, Mar 30, 2012
