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SFS engg colleges seek govt help to settle admission issue
THE ENGINEERING colleges, under the self-financing sector (SFS), are seeking the State Government?s intervention to fill 16,000 vacant seats. Earlier, BEd colleges under the SFS sought legal help to settle the admission dispute. As the academic session has already begun, it would be very difficult for the engineering colleges to complete the admission process and they would also face heavy financial loss.
THE ENGINEERING colleges, under the self-financing sector (SFS), are seeking the State Government’s intervention to fill 16,000 vacant seats. Earlier, BEd colleges under the SFS sought legal help to settle the admission dispute.
As the academic session has already begun, it would be very difficult for the engineering colleges to complete the admission process and they would also face heavy financial loss.
It is worth mentioning that the UPTU could fill 24,800 B Tech seats out of 28,800 through counselling. Even after the counseling, about 4000 B Tech, 4000 MBA, 4000 MCA, 200 B Arch and 1000 pharmacy seats remained vacant.
In order to fill these vacant seats, the UPTU also announced the second counselling on July 17, but the counselling could not be taken place as the management of the SFS Colleges filed a petition in the court. The college managements wanted to fill these seats through management quota but the UPTU denied permission to the college managements.
The court in its order directed the UPTU to hold counselling to fill the seats. The UPTU also re-fixed counselling dates for October 8 to 10. But again the college managements moved the High Court and obtained a stay against the counselling.
Due to ongoing legal battle between the UPTU and the SFS colleges, neither the seats could be filled nor the students were allowed to continue their studies.
According to UPTU Registrar US Tomar, the delay in admission would cause academic loss to the students as the first semester examination was scheduled to be beginning from December 12.
Students are also worried about their future as they fear that the loss of one academic year would cause problems in their settlement.
