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Staturday, July 17, 2010
Chennai: The bogus Plus Two marksheet scam detected by authorities of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) at Anna University is the not the first case of backdoor entry attempts made by BE/BTech aspirants in the state.
In this decade, Tamil Nadu has witnessed two other major engineering admission-related scandals involving a large group of students.
Senior professors at the university recalled that in the academic year 2002-03, nearly 6,000 students, many of them from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, had joined engineering colleges under the management quota using “suspect” SC/ST community and nativity certificates.
They had secured the SC/ST community certificates from tashildars in several districts as students belonging to the communities were permitted to join BE/BTech courses with a mere pass mark in Plus Two along with an appearance in the entrance examination.
“Several students belonging to backward classes and open competition category had joined colleges by falsely representing that they belonged to the SC/ST communities. The then vice-chancellor E Balagurusamy had instructed the then university director of student affairs V Jayabalan to probe the issue. After a year-long investigation, based on the feedback sent by collectors of several districts, the admission of 166 students studying in 34 private engineering colleges were cancelled,” a senior professor said.
The next year in 2004, another large-scale irregularity was detected in admission of students. This time instead of fake community certificates, students chose to abuse the NRI quota route to join technical institutions. Besides, managements of some private colleges too were in cahoots with them.
Like in the case of SC/ST students, any candidate who has secured a mere pass mark in the Plus Two examination could be admitted to BE/BTech courses under the NRI quota. However, authorities initiated a probe after learning that many students who had no relatives abroad were misusing the quota for NRIs to pursue their dream courses. Since the NRI quota allowed colleges to admit 10% students (now 15%) in excess of their sanctioned students’ intake, they had actively encouraged students with fake NRI documents to get admission.
Once again professor V Jayabalan scrutinised the case histories of scores of students and eventually found that around 500 of them had entered the college using fraudulent documents. Subsequently the admission of all these students was cancelled.
Around the same time, the university had also transferred nearly 500 students, most of them hailing from Kerala, who were admitted in sister-institutions of a leading educational group in southern Tamil Nadu to other colleges after it was found that the institution manipulated their marksheets.
Admission-related scams not new to Anna University
Chennai: The bogus Plus Two marksheet scam detected by authorities of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) at Anna University is the not the first case of backdoor entry attempts made by BE/BTech aspirants in the state.
In this decade, Tamil Nadu has witnessed two other major engineering admission-related scandals involving a large group of students.
They had secured the SC/ST community certificates from tashildars in several districts as students belonging to the communities were permitted to join BE/BTech courses with a mere pass mark in Plus Two along with an appearance in the entrance examination.
“Several students belonging to backward classes and open competition category had joined colleges by falsely representing that they belonged to the SC/ST communities. The then vice-chancellor E Balagurusamy had instructed the then university director of student affairs V Jayabalan to probe the issue. After a year-long investigation, based on the feedback sent by collectors of several districts, the admission of 166 students studying in 34 private engineering colleges were cancelled,” a senior professor said.
The next year in 2004, another large-scale irregularity was detected in admission of students. This time instead of fake community certificates, students chose to abuse the NRI quota route to join technical institutions. Besides, managements of some private colleges too were in cahoots with them.
Like in the case of SC/ST students, any candidate who has secured a mere pass mark in the Plus Two examination could be admitted to BE/BTech courses under the NRI quota. However, authorities initiated a probe after learning that many students who had no relatives abroad were misusing the quota for NRIs to pursue their dream courses. Since the NRI quota allowed colleges to admit 10% students (now 15%) in excess of their sanctioned students’ intake, they had actively encouraged students with fake NRI documents to get admission.
Once again professor V Jayabalan scrutinised the case histories of scores of students and eventually found that around 500 of them had entered the college using fraudulent documents. Subsequently the admission of all these students was cancelled.
Around the same time, the university had also transferred nearly 500 students, most of them hailing from Kerala, who were admitted in sister-institutions of a leading educational group in southern Tamil Nadu to other colleges after it was found that the institution manipulated their marksheets.
Courtesy: Times of India
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