The Hindu 28.06.2010
VMC's undertaking to corporate colleges
Staff reporter
| Says it will pay the admission fee on behalf of meritorious students who secured free seat |
VMC to create corpus fund for the purpose
Philanthropists may donate to the corpus fund
VIJAYAWADA: In the wake of hullabaloo that corporate colleges are insisting upon students who secured free seat to pay the admission fee, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has given “an undertaking” that it will pay the admission fee on behalf of the students. Municipal Commissioner G. Ravi Babu said that the VMC wrote letters to different corporate colleges in the city stating that the corporation would take responsibility of paying the admission fee. The colleges were also urged not to insist upon the students to pay the fee, he said. Every student who secured more than 500 marks in SSC had to pay a fee of Rs. 2,000, while the student who secured more than 480 marks in SSC had to pay Rs. 5,000 towards admission fee. The VMC, through donors, would pay the fees. And, for this, the VMC had roped in philanthropists, charitable trusts and foundations like Lanco Foundation.
The VMC would create a corpus fund for paying the fee of students who secured admission into corporate colleges. The philanthropists could make donations to the corpus fund so that this initiative would continue in future as well, he said.
Felicitations
The corporation was planning to organise a function to handover the fee to the colleges. The VMC, at this function, would felicitate the meritorious students; educationists and philanthropists would also be felicitated for encouraging the meritorious students, he said.
It may be recalled that the VMC convened student-corporate colleges interface meeting recently. As many as 230 students, who secured more than 500 marks in SSC, turned up for the meeting. Of this, 128 students were assured of admission into the colleges, including Sri Chaitanya, Narayana, NRI, Satya Sai and Sri Vidya colleges. Mr. Ravi Babu urged the colleges' principals and representatives to offer free seats to them in view of their marks and financial status as well.
