EAMCET Engineering admission: 50% Inter marks mandatory

Starting this year, students will need a minimum of 50 per cent marks in their intermediate examination to get admission in engineering colleges. S S Mantha, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), on Saturday communicated this to officials of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). The chairman was in the university to attend a workshop with engineering college managements.
Mantha communicated to the university authorities that a 50 per cent score in group subjects (mathematics, physics and chemistry for engineering) will be made mandatory from Eamcet 2011. Students belonging to SC/ST communities need to score 45 per cent marks in group subjects to take admission in engineering colleges.
The state government so far kept a minimum score of 35 per cent in intermediate for admissions in engineering colleges. Around 40,000 students who got just 35 per cent marks in the qualifying examination had taken admission in engineering colleges in the previous academic year.
According to Mantha, AICTE will not allow the state to continue with 35 per cent rule as the “quality of technical education would come down further’’. The state government had written to AICTE earlier this month asking for an exemption for the state’s students from the 50 per cent rule. Meanwhile, addressing the workshop, the AICTE chairman said that new engineering colleges that will be allowed to take admissions for the coming academic year will be sanctioned by May 31, unlike in the previous years when AICTE approvals were given even till August.

AICTE Has Bombed Management Institutions With Its New Norms

The situation is grim for MBA aspirants as AICTE bans many of the important management entrance exams such as XAT, ATMA, and MICAT and engineers seem to score better in CAT. IIMs have, finally, revealed their scoring patterns and are taking steps to equate its admission process to students from all streams of education. Private management institutes too seem to grow discontented over new AICTE norms.

However, there has been a breather for 44 deemed universities, with an enrollment of over 2 lakh students, which are under the threat of being de-recognized because of the deficiencies in their infrastructure, facilities, and faculty, as per the regulations. Moreover, Kapil Sibal has announced that Indian students will be able to study on net in next two years.

ICICI and NIIT: MBA (Finance & Banking) for Working Professionals

ICICI in association with NIIT University has announced an ICICI Business Leadership Programme for doing an MBA with specialization in finance and banking.

Eligibility:

• Working professionals who are CAs/ Engineers/ Graduates in any discipline(s) including floor professionals.

• Minimum 60 % aggregate in graduation.

• Minimum of 3 years full-time professional experience - Preferable work experience in industries like manufacturing [pharmaceuticals, steel, oil, gas and petroleum, etc.], infrastructure, aviation, software, power, telecom and finance.


Age: Not exceed 30 years of age (as on 15th April, 2011).


Fee and Stipend:

The interested students will have to invest 4.5 lacs which would be provided by ICICI bank as a subsidized loan at an interest rate of 2.5% p.a. [Service Tax on the loan amount will be paid by the students].

During programme period of 2 years students would be paid stipend/ scholarship of Rs. 10,000 (per month) during class room programme phase & Rs. 50,000 (per month) during internship phase.

The salary at the grade that you would be joining (Manager Band II) has been adequately increased to cater for the payment of loan EMI of approximately 8,000 per month.

Stipend: During the internship phase, the students will be paid a stipend of 50,000 per month to cover the expenses incurred.


Selection process:

On the basis of merit and entrance test. The test will measure the aptitude of the applicant through verbal ability, numerical ability and logical reasoning.

The short-listed candidates will be invited for group discussion. Based on case studies, the group discussions are mainly conducted to judge applicants on their analytical thinking, approach adapted to hypothetical business situations and the ability to break down complex problems to arrive at simple solutions.

The short-listed candidates who clear the GD will be called for psychometric profiling or personal interview. Course commencement for first batch: April 2011 with 120 students and next batch of 120 students in October 2011.


Last date: January 22, 2011

For more details click here

EAMCET cutoff mark 50 percent for engineering

All India Council for Technical Education has decided to increase the qualifying marks from 35 per cent to 50 per cent in 10+2 exams to improve the standards in Engineering. Students from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes should get at least 40 per cent.

Till date, only pass marks (35 per cent) in Intermediate was enough for a student totake admission in BE, B.Tech courses apart from securing 25 per cent marks in Eamcet. For students from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, even a “zero” in Eamcet would fetch them a seat For students from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, even a “zero” in Eamcet would fetch them a seat in BE/B.Tech courses if they just managed to pass Intermediate.

The new norm may prove disastrous for Engineering colleges as nearly 80,000 students who qualified in Eamcet last year did not secure 50 per cent marks in Inter.

But from next year, those who do no secure 50 percent marks will not be able to pursue Engineering courses resulting in thousands of seats remaining vacant.

The requirement of 50 per cent in Intermediate was applicable only to Eamcet medical stream students in accordance with the directions of the Medical Council of India two years ago.

The new norm, that is meant to improve standards in professional education, will be incorporated in the Eamcet notification set to be issued in the first week of February.

This follows the decision of the All India Council for Technical Education to increase the qualifying marks from 35 per cent to 50 per cent in 10+2 exams to improve the standards in Engineering.

The state has 2.8 lakh engineering seats of which 95,000 seats remained vacant this year. If the 50 per cent marks norms comes it effect, the officials expect nearly 1.5 lakh seats to remain vacant next year forcing nearly 200 colleges to shut down.

Fearing worst times ahead, the managements of engineering colleges have decided to fight against the 50 percent marks norms by launching agitation programmes. They are demanding that the government write to the AICTE for relaxing the 50 per cent norm.

However, the new norm will came in handy for the government which is trying to reduce its financial burden on account of the fee reimbursement scheme.

Telangana Report | SKC Telangana Report | Sri Krishna Committe report on telangana is out

Telangana report by Sri Krishna Committee is out today. Click below links to view the summary of the report.

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/archive/00338/Summary_of_Telangan_338142a.pdf

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2011/jan/d2011010502.pdf

The committee gave six options out of which the first option i.e., keeping the state as United Andhra Pradesh has been recommended along with taking measures to develop telegana area by appointing a separate council for regional telangana.

Our Home Minister Mr. Chidambaram stated that the possible options would be 4, 5 and 6.

MAT 2011 Notification, MAT February 2011 Notification, February 2011 MAT

MAT Notification: February 2011

The notification for MAT February, 2011 is given below with the following details.

TEST DATE:
6th February 2011, from 10.00 am to 12:30 pm (reporting time: 9:00 am) and 12th
February 2011 onwards for Computer based test.

ELIGIBILITY
Graduate in any discipline from a recognized university. Final year degree course students
can also apply.

HOW TO APPLY
Candidate can choose any one of the following modes to apply.
• Obtain Form with MAT Bulletin/CD against cash payment of Rs 1200 from listed
branches of Bank of Baroda/Axis Bank, listed Study Centres of AIMA OR against cash
payment of Rs 1050 from AIMA, New Delhi.
• Obtain crossed Demand Draft (DD) of Rs 1050 in favour of ‘All India Management
Association’ payable at Delhi from any Bank. Register online at website www.aimaind.
org/matfeb11 along with the DD details. Detailed procedure is given on the
website link.
• Register online at website link www.aima-ind.org/matfeb11 with Credit Card
payment. Detailed procedure is given on the website link.

IMPORTANT DATES
Last date for online registration/Sale of forms 15th Jan, 2011
Last date for submission of forms /online submission 18th Jan, 2011

LIST OF PARTICIPATING INSTITUTES
Total of 499 colleges are participating in this exam with following details:
Northern Region: 173 colleges
Western Region: 88 colleges
Southern Region: 159 colleges
Eastern Region: 79 colleges

ADMIT CARD
All provisionally registered candidates can download their Admit Card from AIMA website
link: www.aima-ind.org/matcentre.asp 7 days before the test date i.e. with effect from 29th
January 2011. Candidates who applied for Computer Based Test and who have been
permitted to appear for the Computer Based Test have to download the Admit Card 7 days
before the Paper Based Test date i.e., with effect from 29th January 2011 from AIMA
website. For complete details please visit http://www.aima-ind.org/mat_generalfeb.
aspx.Candidates accessing the website the earliest can choose the Date and Time of
his/her choice subject to availability.

For more details click below link:
http://www.aima-ind.org/mat_general-feb.aspx

Another IIIT centre in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

The new IIIT will have a capacity of about 1,000 students and will offer under-graduate, master’s and Ph.D programmes within a period of six to seven years of its functioning. INSTITUTE TO BE SET UP WITH INVESTMENT OF `130 CR IN PPP MODE.


The Centre has decided to set up a new Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in the state with an investment of `130 crore in public-private partnership mode.

The new IIIT will be a part of the Centre’s plans to establish 20 IIITs across the country. The funds would be shared in the ratio of 50:35:15 between the Centre, the state and the industry. The state already boasts of an IIIT in Gachibowli, established in 1998, which was eventually upgraded into a deemed university.


The proposal to set up 20 new IIITs was approved by the Union Cabinet in December 2010. The Union HRD ministry has written to the state government, expressing its willingness to allot one IIIT to the state. It has asked for proposals to be submitted immediately.


In response to this, Mr Damodara Rajanarasimha, minister for higher and technical education, said: “We have convened a meeting with officials of higher and technical education departments to discuss the Centre’s proposal this week. Initially, we will identify the suitable cities and about 50 acres required for the purpose of setting up the institute. Based on this, we will submit a report to the UMHRD after shortlisting the location.” He said the new IIIT will have a capacity of about 1,000 students and will offer under-graduate, master’s and Ph.D programmes within a period of six to seven years of its functioning. The project will start in the 2011-12 academic year The new IIIT, intended to specialise in application of IT skills in one or more domains, will be of worldclass standard and will be set up as an autonomous institute.


The new IIIT is expected to produce world-class, high-quality technical personnel, which will generate manpower for emerging industries, science departments and laboratories.

Last date extended for Intermediate course of AP Open School

Minister for primary education S Shailajanath said on Friday that the last date for enrolment in the Intermediate course of Andhra Pradesh State Open School (APOSS) had been extended till January 29 to accommodate those who passed in November/December.

Releasing the results of SSC examinations of APOSS, the minister said that out of the total 12,195 students who appeared for the exams this year, 4,146 passed it. He said that the APOSS certificate was be equal to the normal SSCs. The students can go in for vocational courses in the APOSS intermediate colleges, he added.