Activists of Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat staged a protest in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner condemning the seat allotment policy for professional courses, here on Thursday.
The activists alleged that medical, dental science and engineering education are being commercialised with seats being “sold” for lakhs of rupees. Private educational institutions have effected a steep hike in the fee. Further, The flawed policy of government now provides 5% more seats to private institutions.
Demanding the State government to enact a comprehensive legislation to regulate professional education the protesters demanded a seat sharing ratio of 60:40 between government and private institutions; constitution of two committees to monitor admission and fee policies and determination of tuition fee on the basis of infrastructure facilities at the college. Raghavendra, K Vasanth Kumar, Mahesh, Umashankar and others took part in the protest.
