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No more Govt. engg. colleges

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM JUNE 20. The State Government will not be setting up any more engineering colleges under it. However, subject to the approval of the AICTE, more self-financing engineering colleges will be allowed to function in the State, informed Nalakath Soopy, Minister for Education.

On account of the stipulation that a candidate appearing for the entrance test for admission to the engineering and medical courses should have secured the subject minimum of 10 marks, 7,364 students were disqualified in the test for engineering and 4,187 for medical. However, since this norm was not binding on candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, 189 of them were included in the engineering rank list and 190 in the medical rank list, the Minister said.

For the implementation of the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rs. 117 crores would be expended during the current academic year, of which 25 per cent would be the State's share. This ambitious programme had been designed to enable all children to receive elementary education and to completely prevent children from dropping out of schools by 2010, he said.

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