Govt's fee treachery exposed!

It is now clear that the government has shrewdly announced full fee reimbursement to all those students ranked below ten thousand in Eamcet with a view to avoid providing such facility to majority students.

The government’s decision to link full reimbursement to the 10,000 rank holders will rob thousands of BC and EBC students of the opportunity to pursue the engineering and other professional courses. Especially, Eamcet rankers above 10,000 would not be able to pursue their academic career in the prestigious colleges.

A clear analysis of the data regarding the Eamcet rankers’ admissions into the engineering courses shows that only around five hundred students would benefit from the decision of the government.

The Government will incur a meager Rs.10 Cr towards full fee reimbursement for the students getting ranks below 10,000.

The pattern of admissions into the engineering colleges in the past indicates that rankers placed between 10,000 and 50,000 also joined some prestigious colleges with the government reimbursing the full fee. This opportunity would not be there now.

While there are 5900 seats in all Government engineering colleges in the state, only 5553 students out of the first 10,000 rank holders have registered for admission into these colleges. Assuming that at least 4000 of them would take admission in these colleges, the rest of the students are likely to join the other colleges including the prestigious 85 colleges.

Out of this bunch of students, only 30 per cent of them are likely to get benefited with full fee reimbursement after excluding the SC and ST students. The number equals to around 500 and the full fee reimbursement for all of them would amount to only Rs.3 Cr.

The financial burden for the Government in case of full fee reimbursement for those 4000 students joining the Government colleges would be around Rs. 6.5 Cr. This means the total burden on the Government’s exchequer is only around Rs.10 Cr under the segment of full fee reimbursement.

Past patterns of engineering admissions show the majority rankers between 10,000 and 50,000, especially below 30,000, constituted of students of BC, EBC, minorities and physically handicapped sections.

All of them will lose the full fee reimbursment opportunity now because of the Governent's decision.