Engineering management quota fee may be tripled in Telangana

The TGCHE plans to manage engineering admissions under the management quota from the next academic year to enhance transparency and fairness in the process. They will seek State government approval to implement online admissions and to triple the management quota fee.

Hyderabad: Engineering aspirants eyeing for a management quota seat in the private colleges may have to shell out triple the fee set for the convener quota from the next year. For instance, if a convener quota seat in a private engineering college is of Rs.1 lakh per annum, the management seat will be Rs.3 lakh.

The move, which has the potential to impact thousands of students, comes as part of the Telangana Council of Higher Education (TGCHE) efforts to streamline the management quota admission process in private engineering colleges.

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The TGCHE is planning to take over the engineering management quota admissions from the next academic year, aiming to increase transparency and fairness in the admission process. Permission to implement online admissions for the management quota besides tripling the fee for will be shortly sought from the State government.

According to TGCHE senior officials, the engineering quota management admissions are being planned on the similar lines of the MBBS and BDS management quota seats via merit secured in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG.

The medicine and dental seats in the private medical and dental institutions are being filled by the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences through the web-based counselling. Here the management quota fee is charged up to twice the fee set for the convener quota seat. Similarly, the category C (NRI) seats fee is up to twice the fee of the management quota seat.

Currently, 70 per cent of the seats in the private engineering colleges are filled up via the Telangana Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TG EAPCET) by the TGCHE. The remaining 30 per cent of seats are filled by the colleges’ management by advertising in the newspapers.
As per the rules, managements have to follow order of merit, starting with NRI candidates, JEE Main, TG EAPCET and intermediate scores not less than 45 per cent. However, so far, these rules are just only on papers. Only a few colleges adhere to these rules.

There has been long distance demand from different student organisations to regulate management quota seats in the private engineering colleges, which have been charging exorbitant fees from students.