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July 6, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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demanded in admission fee racket Ludhiana, July 5 The sangh had filed a writ petition in the high court against the practice of private aided schools of charging excessive fee, and the high court, in its decision on December 8, 1999, had given directions to these schools to charge a fixed amount of fee. Regretfully, however, the private schools have not adhered to the decision of high court. The sangh has taken upon itself to help the common people who are fleeced by the school authorities. In this connection, the Vigilance Department was informed by sangh members on January 28 that SD Girls Senior Secondary School, Trunk Bazaar, had been charging excessive fee. Vigilance sleuths raided the school and irregularities worth of lakhs were found. He again, powerful members of the management had managed to get off the hook due to political pressure. Incensed members of the management of the school had got registered a false FIR against the sangh members on January 30 at Division No 3. Now that history has repeated itself, the sangh members fear that powerful people managing the schools will again be successful in lodging an FIR against them and hence Mr Gupta has appealed to the SSP not to lodge an FIR against the sangh members on such false complaints. He has asked ‘him to conduct an inquiry before taking any step. The sangh members have appealed to the SSP that their sole aim is to end corrupt practises in aided schools and they have no personal axe to grind. The sangh has also written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anurag Verma, drawing his attention to the corrupt practices being followed by the private aided schools at the time of admissions. They have said that private schools are making money to the tune of crores. Corruption is rampant in these schools and an honest officer should head an inquiry to expose the mafia that is active in collecting money at the admission time. There are 468 aided schools and members of the management of these schools are amassing wealth by fleecing the poor parents of wards who seek admission to these schools. The sangh members claim that they have original forms of certain schools on which members of management have given some discount on the exorbitant fee charged by them. This proves that the students are being charged more than the fixed amount of fee. The fee structure of the aided school is as low as Rs 5 for class I and goes up to Rs 90 for senior classes. Yet these students are asked to pay more than a thousand
rupees. The sang members have urged the Deputy Commissioner to order a probe into the matter. |
BBA, BCA aspirants likely to get admission Ludhiana, July 5 While the exact picture would be clear only on July 6 when the colleges would put up the merit list of the eligible candidates, but from the number of applications received in the colleges, it is evident that almost all applicants would be able to seek admission to the desired courses. The Institute of Management Studies (IMS), Model Town, has 30 seats each in BBA and BCA courses and the number of applications received is exactly the same in both courses. Col H.S. Singha, Director, said the response to the courses was relatively feeble this year as there were more applicants last time. Similarly, in the Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology, Model Town, there are 60 seats in BBA and 120 in BCA and the number of applicants is the same here again. Dr A.S. Bansal said almost all candidates could be sure of getting admission under such circumstances. He said the last date for receiving applications was June 30 and his staff was still going through the forms to check if these were complete and the candidates fulfilled the eligibility criteria. At the Punjab College of Technical Education, BBA has 60 seats and BCA 120 seats and the college has received 205 applications in all. Dr K.N.S. Kang, Director of the college, said some of the candidates tried for admission elsewhere too and so did not turn up for counselling. He said though the picture would be clear on July 8 when the counselling began but he hoped that almost all students coming for counselling would be able to get admission in the college. Contrary to the scenario in other colleges, the Gujranwala Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology (GGNIMT) has received applications double the number of seats. Prof G.S. Dua, Coordinator of the college, said 350 candidates had applied for the courses whereas the number of seats in BCA was 120 and in BBA, it was 60. Therefore, he expected a stiff competition for admission to the courses in his college. |
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