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Now, Kanchi college students knock at DTE's door

By Feroze Ahmed

CHENNAI JUNe 30. Students of yet another self-financing institution gathered at the Directorate of Technical Education campus today to register their complaints against the college management.

Students of the Kalsar College of Engineering, Kancheepuram, and their parents said they had been representing their complaints to several authorities for the past two months and demanded that the Director of Technical Education immediately record their statements against the management.

The run-up to the counselling has been characterised by scores of protests, complaints and demands for transfers to other institutions for lack of academic and physical infrastructure, heavy collection of fees and fines, and managements' tough attitude towards students and parents. The Kalsar students, as have students from other institutions, charged their college management with threatening them with physical harm, and parents complained of having been abused by the college authorities when they went to meet them with grievances.

The Director of Technical Education, S.K. Prabakar, said he was ready to record their statements in his office instead of on the college premises, but could do so only in the presence of other members of a permanent standing committee, which was set up last week to enquire into complaints against managements and transfer students to other institutions, if necessary. The complaints would be recorded soon, he promised.

Speaking to reporters today after handing over allotment orders to top candidates in the counselling session for the physically disabled category, the Anna University Vice-Chancellor, E. Balagurusamy, said the categorisation of colleges into A, B and C groups, was only a means to alert and help such colleges improve their infrastructure and attitude. "It is not to punish them," he clarified.

"Colleges in the `C' group are those that need maximum improvement, the `B' group institutions need minor improvement, and the rest have adequate facilities," he said. He also stressed that the categorisation would have "no connection with the counselling."

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