Confusion over transfers in self-financing engineering colleges

Thiruvananthapuram: The clause that students who sought transfers from self-financing engineering colleges after the last date of admissions should pay the liquidated damages has created confusion.

Many government-controlled self-financing engineering colleges have sought liquidated damages from students who sought such transfers after the third round of allotment.

This confusion was due to the lack of clarity in the clause on liquidated damages given in the prospectus.

The prospectus said that students who sought admissions after the last date of admissions should pay the liquidated damages. However, it did not define the ‘last date of admissions’.

As per the agreement entered between the state government and private self-financing colleges, the last date of admissions to the colleges under them is the third round of allotment.

However, the last date of admissions specified by the AICTE as per an earlier Supreme Court judgment is August 15. The colleges are also allowed to conduct a spot allotment before the deadline set by the AICTE to fill vacant seats after the final round of allotment.

However, Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) B. S. Mavoji told Deccan Chronicle that the last date applicable for private self-financing engineering colleges is also applicable for government self-financing engineering colleges.