Government rejects demand of self-financing colleges

Thiruvananthapuram: The Government has rejected the demand for altering norms for admissions to self-financing engineering colleges in the State.

Education Minister C. Raveendranath, who held talks with the college managements, said that norms could not be relaxed with a view to facilitate admissions to vacant seats. The association of college managements said that they would revert after discussions in their executive committee on Tuesday.

The college managements had demanded that they should be allowed to admit students who had not scored the minimum mark of ten in the entrance examinations. They also wanted to admit students who had not written the entrance test on the basis of results of Plus Two examinations. They claimed that a large number of seats would remain vacant if the norms were not changed.

Of the 109 colleges which had signed agreements with the government last year, 60 colleges face shortage of students.