Deccan Chronicle: Kochi:Tuesday,
February 12, 2013.
Information emerging
as answers to a set of RTI queries has it that many affiliated colleges of MG
University, including self-financing institutions, are flouting reservation
norms in student admissions.
A report
submitted by Dr Sreeranganadhan, director, School of Management and Business
Studies, and Valsamma Karunakaran, joint registrar, to the VC had revealed
this. The report submitted on February 5 2010 was released to an RTI applicant
in August, 2012.
The team
visited St Dominic College, Kanjirappally, Marian College, Kuttikkanam, and the
DC School of Management, Pullikkanam in 2009. St Dominic College was found not
keeping proper reservation norms, especially in PG programmes. In Marian
College, three BCA and BBA quota seats each were filled with forward community
students. In MCA (un-aided), six quota seats were filled with forward community
students.
In DC School
of Management, not even an SC/ST student was admitted to the 120 seats and it
did not maintain an admission register either. It was found insisting SC/ST
students pay the fees.
The committee
inspected Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kalamassery, SCMS, Kalamassery,
Bharathmatha College, Kalamassery and SNGIST, North Paravur on January 8, 2010.
All except the Bharathmatha College were found violating quota norms. SNGIST
admitted only four SC/ST students in place of the required six students and
demanded a fee of `1,20,000 from them. SCMS, which failed to maintain proper
admission records, did not enroll even a single SC/ST student in 2008 and 2009.
Interestingly, Rajagiri authorities refused to show academic records to the
committee.
Dr
Sreeranganadhan told DC on Sunday that the MG University has not cared to even
warn the colleges in the aftermath of the report.
Nor had it
taken any steps to reverse the situation.