More than 30 Engineering colleges get zero admissions in state!
Bengaluru, August 21: In the present academic year, more than 30 engineering colleges in the state have got zero admissions into engineering courses under Comed-K entrance test.
The admission process under the government and Comed-K quota for engineering courses for the academic year 2018-19 was closed recently. According to the data from Comed-K, more than 62 per cent seats under Comed-K quota were not filled. This year, total 16,236 engineering seats were available under the Comed-K quota. Of them, 10,175 seats are not filled.
Interestingly, 33 engineering colleges in the state did not get even a single student and each of the 33 other colleges have less than 10 admissions. Only 10 colleges have 80 to 99 per cent seats were filled. In the government quota, out of 64,000 seats, more than 21,000 seats were lying vacant, it is said.
Six engineering colleges which got 100 per cent admissions have shared 1,349 seats and among those six colleges, four are situated in Bengaluru and two in Mysuru.
As per the Comed-K and college managements, the trend of less demand to the engineering courses is not new. Same trend has been continuing for the last eight years.
Comed-K executive secretary Dr S Kumar said that nowadays, students have become more intelligent. They would not fall prey to the advertisements and false assurances. The engineering colleges have to ensure basic infrastructure and quality education, he said.
Civil, Mechanical divisions have less demand
For the last three-four years, computer science division was cornered like civil and mechanical. But this year, compared to previous years, the computer science division has got good number of students. But the civil and mechanical departments have less demand, officers said.
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Assam CM flays Cong for 'not verifying' documents before making charges against his family
Sivasagar/Guwahati (PTI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday slammed the Congress for “not verifying” the documents based on which it brought allegations against him and his family.
Congress leader Pawan Khera had on Sunday alleged that Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, has multiple passports and foreign property, which were not declared in the chief minister’s election affidavit.
Sarma also hit out at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, claiming that he was “speaking like a madman” due to old age, after the latter put the onus on central agencies to probe the charges.
The CM asserted that Khera had “run away” to Hyderabad, but the Assam Police will “hunt him down even from ‘pataal’ (netherworld)”.
“‘Assam Police ko nahi jante hain.. Pataal se bhi ukhar ke le ayega’ (They don’t know the Assam Police... they will hunt him down even from the netherworld),” asserted Sarma.
An Assam Police team had earlier in the day visited the Delhi residence of Khera for questioning him in connection with the case.
“If they didn’t know the truth, why did they put it out in public? They should have asked the foreign minister first,” Sarma told reporters on the sidelines of an election campaign, when asked for his reaction to Kharge’s assertion that the Union government should probe the allegations now.
Kharge, at a presser in Guwahati on Tuesday, said all agencies are under the central government, which should probe the charges.
"They have already filed an FIR against Khera. Let them probe the matter. We will face the case as it progresses. We have sought probes by the ED or CBI into the allegations," he said.
Sarma added: “Kharge is ageing and is speaking like a ‘pagal’ (madman). You insult the people first and then say will ask the foreign minister (for verification)? Is he your ‘damad’ (son-in-law),” the chief minister said.
“I think Rahul Gandhi had given these documents to Khera, and if that is so, the case will then include Gandhi,” he added.
