- I Paid A Bribe
- 14 years ago
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The stealth reality behind SRM University
- Education
- Admission to College
- Paid INR 7,50,000
One of the universities from those who have made National as well as International recognition in recent time is SRM University.Like most of all others I heard its name and fame for the first time when convocation of Indian Science Congress (ISC) held there last year in its world class auditorium hall.(Seen myself ).The large infrastructure,impressive study and hostel buildings everything go fine and mind boggling till this gist.But the truth is much bitter and dark.A world class institution having collaboration with around 35 universities worldwide including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),having 60:40 ratio of Indian to foreign faculty,Semester Abroad Programs ,Faculty and Student exchange programs.Everything seems as nice as just it is the best option to opt for.I did the same.I wrote SRMEEE as i was pursuing admissions.Fortunately,i got the counseling invitation.After the IITJEE 2011 hard luck i decided to go with SRM after all it was ranked 8 nation wide as per Times of India (TOI) survey.The scheduled day for attending the counseling in SRM,Kuttankulathur was 14 June.We reached timely on 13 June.So we went to visit campus.And it was all very impressive.Meanwhile my sight stuck on the seats availability.On my surprise there're still 13 seats left in ECE in main campus.I was glad enough.But when we returned from canteen the left seats were all filled up.Most surprising thing was counseling wasn't going on during that period.So i approached to two Hindi spoken college guys (As most of them speak Tamil it was lucky bumper prize).After enquiring my Board scores and AIEEE marks,they suggested me if you really wanna have ECE on main campus,then you should go SRM Hospital at Mamblam.On further enquiry i got to know there are some management seats which are in his hand as he has financial share in the party founder of SRM University founded.So we entrained ourselves from Puttheri to Mamblam,almost 45 minutes long journey.As we reached SRM Hospital i called to ********** (The man who has privilege to manage management seats).He sent a guy ,he was receiving a BBA degree from SRM ,Vadapalani campus.He was very talkworthy guy.I started enquiring him about SRM administration and campuses environment.He told me the availability of seats problem has been experienced by many others too.As he was actually from Bihar,he started conversation in Hindi.As we stepped inside **********'s office there were already four cases which they call "parties" sitting on couch.It was an air conditioned office.The guy he sent was collecting 1.5 lacs from the party sitting in front of us.My father and i both started looking at each other,as were not familiar what was happening outta there.Through keen observation i analysed it was donation which set to money exchange.After sitting there for about one hour (amidst ********** too entered room).I got to know almost 80% seats are filled through donations only.There is a well pre-planned procedure for the donations too.One can even cancel the seats one had got through official counseling by giving more money as donations.So overall it was only money which speaks there.They were saying there has to be signs of HOD's,chancellor,vice-chancellor to get a management seat and all of them are bribed in lacs to get one signature.With sad heartened,as
i was anticipating fair system then such a corrupt,i left the room.
I said to my father I don't need to admit in such an institution.But my father has more tricky idea he said Let's see what happen in your tomorrow's counseling.But my inner conscious wasn't allowing me to even attend my counseling but for sake of respect to my father i attended it.But i left the auditorium hall without taking admission though i was getting each respective field in each of SRM's capuses except ECE in Kuttankulathur main campus.One thing i would like to suggest readers please don't go for private institutions in India whatever fame they got .It is just money which contributed towards huge infrastructures.Better to go with IIT's and NIT's which have fair admission procedures.
I wonder how this could be possible without government involvement.Such institutions have made education a business and money making machines.It is the darkest aspect of Indian education. Privatization of education has made it standards much lower.SRM is conducting SRMEEE just only to show they're ,otherwise seats are filled only through management quota.WTF if these are international standards i strongly condemn it.