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Don?t meddle in fund management
AN ALUMNUS of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute and the president of a USA-based company Yogesh K Goel said the alumni of the institute settled abroad were eager to extend all possible fiscal assistance to the institute if the government did not intervene in the management of funds. Goel, who was here to attend the ?International Alumni Meet? at the HBTI scheduled from Saturday .
AN ALUMNUS of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) and the president of a USA-based company Yogesh K Goel said the alumni of the institute settled abroad were eager to extend all possible fiscal assistance to the institute if the government did not intervene in the management of funds.
Goel, who was here to attend the ‘International Alumni Meet’ at the HBTI scheduled from Saturday told newsmen that alumni wanted that the State Government should give adequate power to the HBTI administration and the executive of the alumni association for managing the funds in the manner it found suitable for the development of the institution and the students alike. He said alumni would never prefer the intervention of the government in the matters of granting admissions or scholarship to the students. Besides, the complete management of the funds would be in the hands of the HBTI authorities and the association executive. In case, the government accepted the proposal there would be no dearth of funds.
He said that he was in touch with more than 70 HBTI alumni in USA through e-mail and out of which 20 were in direct contact with him. They all have fancy for helping the institution. Meanwhile, he has offered training to the HBTI students at his company in USA. He said that in this country the medium class industrial ventures had no future. Only the big or the small industrial ventures could flourish here, he added.
‘Change UPTU counselling process’
AN ALUMNUS of the Hartcourt Butler Technology Institute and manager at the Babu Banarsi Das Engineering College (BBDEC) Harendra Agarwal said that there was a need for a change in the counselling process of the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) to check the harassment of the students and the owners of the private colleges.
He alleged that as long as the existing counselling process would continue, it would not be possible to fill the vacancies at the colleges under self-finance schemes. He suggested that the UPTU should convert the vacant seats of Scheduled Caste (SC) quota into other backward caste (OBC) quota and vacant seats under the OBC quota into general seats.
In case all the seats could not be filled, either the UPTU should go for another counselling or should allow the colleges to grant admissions to the students who fulfilled the fixed norms of the university.
He further said that fixing different fee structure according to the infrastructure and the facilities available at the colleges was unlawful. Since the UPTU granted recognition to the colleges, who fulfilled all the fixed standards and norms, there could be no ground for making distinction among them just for the consideration of fee structure. There should not be any difference in the fee structure on any ground, he added.
Alumni meet begins today
THE STAGE is set for the International Alumni Meet beginning tomorrow at the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) here. The meet is regarded to be the most important one as the alumni might declare certain assistance to the institute in the near future.
Informed sources said that deliberations were already held with several alumni during the past one year and they all had accepted the idea of extending fiscal and technological assistance to the institute at their personal level. The idea of taking assistance from the alumni, nurtured by a team of professors headed by HBTI Director Dr RP Singh, could have materialised a long back, had the government rules permitted it. Alumni were apprehensive of the government intervention in the projects for which they preferred to extend financial assistance on yearly basis.
According to Dr Singh the institute was in need of knowing the latest and the global technologies so that budding engineers at the institute could be groomed to meet the global requirements for better placement. It is believed that the forthcoming alumni meet would prove to be a landmark in changing the destiny of the institute and its students. A consortium was likely to be set up for strengthening the financial position of the institute, said a senior professor pleading anonymity.
