Basar IIIT a boon for poor students

Basar, IIIT of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), Telangana has come as a boon for economically disadvantaged parents who cannot pay the high fees in the private institutions of higher education.

There is now a good demand for the admissions into the six- year integrated six years integrated B. Tech (Engineering) course at Basar IIIT, the completion of which has had students getting jobs in reputed IT companies through campus placements and students being selected in competitions, 53 percent of which has been secured by the girls.

RGUKT vice- chancellor S. Satyanarayana released the list of the 936 selected students on June11, remaining seats to be filled with the students applied under NCC, physically handicapped and sports quotas. 

As many as 21,547 students applied for 1,000 seats in the first year engineering course at Basar, IIIT for 2016- 17. Students who scored above the 9.8 GPA got seats under all categories including reserved ones.   

Some students with 10+10 GPA in SSC also did not get a spot in Basar IIIT due to high competition.

Not a single student from 150 of Telangana’s 256 mandals got in; there was no representation also from 26 mandals out of 52 in the Adilabad district.

A good number of students from Karimnagar and Warangal got admissions. The institution is allocating 65 percent seats to students from rural areas and those who have studied in government schools, making it seems as if IIIT Basar is creating a demand for government schools.

As many as 273 students from Warangal, 151 from Karimnagar, 73 from Nizamabad, 61 from Khammam, 46 from Adilabad, 91 from Mahaboobnagar, 77 from Medak, 62 from Nalgonda, 54 from Rangaredd and 6 students from Hyderabad got seats at Basar, IIIT.

The university will add 0.4 GPA to the marks of the students from the government schools. Also, 35 percent students from private educational institutions made it into the college.

People of the district are demanding that the state government give a special allocation of seats to the Adilabad district. K. Rajeshwar of Tamsi mandal said many talented students were not getting seat in IIIT Basar due to comparatively less GPA scored in SSC examinations and also because the state was being considering as a unit in allocation of seats.  

He said most of the poor and lower middleclass parents preferred to join their children in six years integrated B. Tech at Basar, IIIT as they cannot pay the high fee in the private engineering colleges and in private junior colleges. 

According to some parents, students from Adilabad, compared to other districts, were not doing well in SSC examinations due to lack of infrastructure and shortage of subject experts in the schools.