The private professional colleges are offering management quota seats at exorbitant rates flouting the government norms.
The engineering seats in top colleges are found to be offered for as much as Rs 12 lakh for electronics and communication engineering (ECE) branch and Rs 10 lakh for other branches, while the stipulated rate is Rs 92,500. Even the second-grade colleges are demanding anything between Rs 3 lakh and Rs 5 lakh for an engineering seat. The MBBS seat in management quota is “sold” at Rs 50 lakhs to Rs 65 lakhs.
Last year, 21 colleges were served show-cause notices by the government for irregularities in admission under the management quota. But it failed to take any action against any of the erring colleges and “approved” such admissions later.
The seats in Information Technology (IT) and computer science engineering (CSE) branches, which used to attract high price earlier, are now pushed to bottom apparently because of a slowdown in the IT sector.
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