Kerala Colleges collecting less fees in trouble

Thiruvananthapuram: The self-financing engineering management association has decided take action against colleges that have collected less fees than that fixed for the management quota as per the agreement with the government. The association fears that students may avoid colleges which collect  higher fees.  

Mr G.P.C. Nayar, president,  Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College   Managements Association (KSFECMA),  told DC that the association would examine whether any managements had decided  to reduce the fees and take appropriate action.

Some colleges had reduced the fees due to many seats remaining vacant. During the 2014 admissions, 30,000 seats,  including    11,448 merit quota seats,  were  vacant mainly due to the spurt in the number of colleges.

Initially, there were only nine colleges in the state with a sanctioned intake of 2,810, but the number has  grown to  157  with 58,220 seats.  Of them, 46,622 are in the self-financing colleges.

This year, of the 1, 11,109 candidates who wrote the engineering entrance examination, 75,258  qualified. Of them 55,180, including 24,472 female candidates,  have been included in the  rank list.  

The total number of  engineering seats  is less than that of   students in the rank list. As many as 30, 148 students have registered their options.