Self Financing college: CPI demands new regulation
Sunday, 12.07.2009, 04:36pm (GMT)
TVM: The CPI has criticized the pact reached between the govt. and the Self-Financing Colleges and said that the only way to end the `anarchy' in the Self-Financing Colleges sector was to ensure that only government fee was collected from students selected on merit.
The CPI alleged that although the govt. had issued a directive on 50:50 merit-management ratio, the fee structure varied from Colleges to Colleges. The existing act on SFC was not adequate to make managements pay heed to the government's directives, the resolution said and wanted the government to think of introducing a fresh legislation to protect the interests of students.
The party demanded that the legislation should be based on the recent Supreme Court order stipulating that 50 percent seats in SFCs should be filled from the merit list.
Hajj pilgrims to be provided special coach in trains – E Ahamed.
Malappuram: The Minister of state for railways E. Ahammed has said that special coaches in trains will be provided from Hajj pilgrims during the forthcoming pilgrim season.
The pilgrims generally boarded planes from five palces. It was learned that they were difficulties sometimes in getting reservation in trains, Ahamed told reporters after visiting the Haj camp at Pookkottur near here.
In order to overcome these difficulties, Haj quota would be arranged in selected trains for the convenience of the pilgrims, he said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would take up with authorities in Saudi Arabia the demand for increasing the country's Haj quota, he said.
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