Hyderabad: Degree colleges too push for management quota

Hyderabad: Private degree colleges  are coming up with a new demand for a management quota system even for conventional degree courses like B.Sc, B.Com, B.A, B.B.A etc. This system exists for UG courses (M.B.B.S, B.D.S, B.Tech, B.Pharm etc) in a few professional colleges.

There are over 900 private degree colleges across Telangana. Seats for various courses in all the government, aided and private degree colleges are being filled through online admission process from this academic year.

Colleges want to allocate seats for all UG courses for the online admission process. However, they want 10 to 20 per cent extra seats under the management quota. Telangana private degree colleges association general secretary Vijayabhaskar Reddy said, “We could not give admission to students w-ho approached us after failing to get desired admissions in Eamcet c-ounselling. Also, as the r-eservation system is in p-lace, students from different communities could not be accommodated.”

There is a demand for seats for courses in nearly 200 private colleges in Hyderabad, Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Khammam and other district headquarters.

However, once seats allocation is done on quota basis, these colleges are helpless. According to Reddy, the management quota will give private colleges a cushion to allocate seats to such candidates irrespective of the online process. College managements say there is no question of enhanced fee collection as is seen for management seats in professional courses. Meanwhile, chairman of the Telangana state council for higher education Prof. Papi Reddy, said they would look into the issue.