To mitigate the sufferings of students who are unwilling to join the
college originally allotted to them, the government can consider
permitting them to participate in the Single Window Admission
Counselling for the second time. The follow-on counselling could be
allowed within one week of original allotment or on the last date of
counselling, whichever is earlier. Moreover, this could be allowed to
students who have not formally joined the college that was originally
allotted to them.
Anna University conducts the Single Window Admission
Counselling of 550 engineering colleges every year to allot colleges to
aspiring students as per the rank order of their school grades. The
university admissions handbook which is supposed to provide basic
information on all colleges however, is highly deficient on vital
information on their performance. Students as a result go by
advertisements and websites of shortlisted colleges as well as opinions
of friends and relatives, in selecting colleges in the online admission
counselling and obtain the admission allotment letter by paying the
necessary fee.
It is only when they report to the college with the admission order that
they know about the real status of the college. The first discrepancy
they observe is in the fee structure, which is at least twice than that
fixed by the government. Most popular colleges collect fee meant for
management quota seats from students who get admission under government
quota too. Students from poor and middle class families, who are unable
to pay the fee, opt out of the college. Such students join colleges
where the fee is affordable, compromising on their dreams of joining a
college that matches merit. This way, students eligible for the First
Generation Graduate Scholarship (Rs 80,000 for the four-year course)
also forego it, as only those who gets admission under the government
quota are eligible to receive it.
If the follow-on counselling is implemented, students attending it
have to be satisfied with the colleges where seats are vacant at the
time of it being held. If the previous record of admission counselling
in TN is taken into consideration, 30% out of the 134,000 students who
have applied for engineering admissions this year may not report for
counselling. With only 100,000 students expected to turn-up for the
counselling against the total available seats of about 200,000 under
government quota, the government should not have difficulty in
conducting the follow-on counselling.
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