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The Ministry of Human Resources Development recently scrapped the non-resident Indian-sponsored quota in private engineering colleges.
Now, only NRIs and people of Indian origin can apply for a seat in these colleges.
The colleges had reserved five per cent of their seats for NRI and NRI-sponsored students.
Most of them charged the candidates between $8,000 and &10,000 for a four year bachelor's course in engineering.
"Some people would arrange the money here and ask some NRI they knew to sign the sponsorship form. That way they would get their India-based wards an engineering seat actually meant for the NRI applicants," P N Razdan, advisor to the All India Council for Technical Education, told rediff.com
The AICTE recommended that this should be stopped, as it would prevent the NRI applicants from getting admission.
Further, it was found that the private colleges were flouting the guidelines set for the quota and trying to use it to garner profit.
"We recommended to the ministry that the NRI-sponsored quota was being misused and this underhand dealing should stop," Razdan said.
"We have included the people of Indian origin into the quota for the NRIs," he added.
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