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New Indian Express
4 days ago
- Business
- New Indian Express
Capitation soars as engineering seats fill up fast ahead of TNEA 2025 counselling
MADURAI: The TNEA 2025 counselling for admissions to Anna University and engineering colleges affiliated to it is a good one month away but seats in several self-financing institutions in the southern districts are already filling up fast as parents willingly shell out as much as Rs 8 lakh demanded in capitation fee to secure admission for their child in the management quota. The principals and deans of various colleges, besides aspirants and their parents, TNIE spoke to say the interest this time is towards BE (Computer Science Engineering) and BTech (IT) programmes. Programmes in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical Engineering are the next preferred courses, while civil engineering is the least preferred. Self-financing colleges accordingly demand capitation fee for securing admission, with a BE (CSE) seat said to be priced at Rs 8 lakh. N Mahesh, a parent who enrolled his son in a popular college in the city said, 'I handed over Rs 6.5 lakh in capitation fee within a week of the Class 12 results being published. If I booked early, a payment of`4 lakh would've been enough.' This is over and above the prescribed annual course fee of Rs 1.30 lakh, he added. His son's TNEA cut-off score is 119 on 200. P Srivathsan said that his parents 'reserved' a seat in the BE (CSE with cyber security) programme at a popular college in the district for him by paying Rs 2 lakh as 'advance'.
Hans India
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hans India
High demand for `1,000 ‘Chandanotsavam'
Visakhapatnam: When new movies of superstars are released and cricket matches are scheduled, the tickets generally get exhausted in a jiffy. But this is the first time, Rs 1,000 tickets for 'Chandanotsavam' witness a similar trend. The tickets for common devotees to witness 'Nijarupa darshan' on 'Chandanotsavam' seems to be a distant dream as they turn out to be inaccessible four days before the festival. Devotees from across the country visit Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam to view the 'real Avatar' of the presiding deity on 'Vaisakha Suddha Tadiya' every year celebrated as 'Chandanotsavam'. The exercise of selling tickets for 'Nijarupa' darshan commenced on April 24 in two different categories, including Rs 300 and Rs 1,000. Along with the PR counter at Simhachalam uphill, tickets were sold through five different banks in Visakhapatnam. However, Rs 1,000 tickets have become inaccessible within 24 hours of its sale commencement. Earlier, Rs 1,000 ticket used to be available even if devotees visited the temple on Chandanotsavam day. But this time, even at Simhachalam counter, the tickets were unavailable four days before the festival. Barring Rs 1,000 tickets, free darshan and Rs 300 tickets are now available to devotees. Those, who enter these two queue lines to witness 'Nijarupa' darshan, have to end up trekking three-and-a-half kms. This would take at least four to six hours of their time. With this, common devotees express ire over the inaccessibility of Rs 1,000 tickets as they have been shuttling between the banks and Simhachalam counters to get tickets. 'On Saturday, we visited the Simhachalam counter for Rs 1,000 ticket. However, the staff said it was exhausted by then. We were taken aback by the response as it is very difficult to wait for such long hours in the free darshan queue line,' says G Vijay Kumar, an employee in a private organisation. Apparently, after the sale of Chandanotsavam tickets commenced, there is no announcement from the Devasthanam officials about the sale details. Expressing concerns, a devotee N Mahesh mentions that the officials were announcing that Nirarupa darshan is going to be more accessible to common devotees. But in reality, he points out, it is quite a contrast to the announcement made. 'There is an allegation that Rs 1,000 tickets were blocked for political leaders. And it is very unfair,' he laments. With restrictions in place for the VIPs and protocol tickets, there are allegations that Rs 1,000 tickets are being blocked and diverted to cater to the political pressure.
