Besu and J.U too!

Lowering the standard of Enggn education:
State govt's insistence on premier institutes like Besu and JU to admit candidates who've got lower ranks in WBJEE is really deplorable and unthinkable too.These institutes are well known for their excellence in Engineering educations and are normally first choices for very high rank holders in WBJEE.For campus violence, of course,BESU has, of late, earned bad reputation.But in academic excellence it still stands out as one of the best institutes in the country.To admit poor ranking students in these institutes just to fill up some empty seats in mechanical and civil engineering is a copromise on their standard and it merits no justification on any count.It's a long standing process for an institution to attain a high standard and it's all the more difficult to sustain it.For an academy to maintain its reputation it essentially needs good students apart from a good faculty.Govt should desist from imposing this unjust decision on these institutes particularly when it's put its best foot forward to make Presidency University a world class one.Incidentally,mentors of Presidency university have called such a move of the education department is quite unjust.

For private engineering colleges too govt's decision to fill up the vacant seats, if needed, even by students who passed class XII Sc with mere 45% marks each in Physics,Chemistry and Mathematics is also utterly unfortunate and impractical .Such a move is probably made with a view to making good the financial loss incurred by the corporates who own these colleges for quite a large number of seats are still falling vacant even after the counseling is over.Except a few private Eng colleges in our state most private colleges are yet to reach the desired level in terms of faculties and infrastructure.Now if no holds barred system is allowed for admission to such colleges, what message does it send to the corporate world that recruits engineering graduates?.
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