The motivation to write this post is a comment by a reader in one of my previous posts about the suicide of a college student in MACFAT, a self financed college.

“I don’t know in what sense it is ‘wonderful college’.Because I spend around 3 years in MACFAST.During my time the management and admin was not that much good also.If the situation is same I think the management and principal have responsibility for the incident. For them it is a business. ” – Thomas

Almost 20 years back, a relative of mine got an entrance rank around 1200. But he didnt get admission for engineering because no seats were left after cutting all the reservations.

In 2001 a friend of mine paid 4 lakhs donation to get admitted to an engineering college in Bangalore. His entrance rank was 12,000. His annual fees, 60,000 Rs. The torture he got from his seniors there is another story.

In 2002 the self financing revolution happened in Kerala. Now in 2008, a junior of mine with an entrance rank  13,000 is studying in a very good engineering college 4 km away from his home. He didnt pay any donation and he his fees is only 38,000. He has no hostel expenses, travelling expenses and he is not afraid of his seniors.

Now this is what engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu do to our students.  Check out the PSN engineering college story. Did any of the student organisations go there and protest ? It takes guts to challenge that management. Not something that our little student politicians can do.

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