Getting an admission in engineering college has never been easier, with admission brokers now available at the click of your mouse. As touts advertise admissions to engineering and medical colleges online, the sale of management seats is no longer a hush-hush affair.
Several websites such as olx.in, sahipasand.com and locanto.in displaying advertisements which offer "direct admission in BE/BTech through the management quota". When contacted a few of these 'admission consultants' to find that seats at top medical and engineering colleges across the country were up for sale from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 12 lakhs.
An advertisement by Ashutosh Singh on sahipasand-. com provides career counseling , career guidance and direct admission in SRM University. When contacted, Singh asks, "What is your budget?"
A mechanical or computer engineering seat at the SRM main campus costs anything between Rs6.75 lakh and Rs 7 lakh. "Booking for the seats started in the last week of February. If you wait any longer, the rates are expected to go up," Singh says.
Rates are a little less for other campuses of the same institute. A seat can be had for Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh at the university's Ramapuram campus. "The major difference is the tall buildings on the main campus ," says Singh.
Aryan, of 'Inspire Consultancy’, has advertised on locanto.in. He offers, for a sum of Rs 15 lakh, a seat in any NIT (National Institute of Technology), which admits students through the centralized All-India Engineering Entrance Exam.
"It's a slightly illegal but I can access your answer sheet and mark the correct answers if you are willing to pay," he offers. But he suggests a private university, as the process is "safer and easier".
"Private colleges are also offering 300% placement," he says, referring to colleges which promise 3 jobs when a student graduates.
Rates can vary according to the courses too and you are likely to pay a heftier 'donation' if you score poorly in the class 12 exam. Seats in streams such as electronics and telecommunications engineering or electronics and instrumentation engineering are available for Rs. 1.5 lakh. "It is difficult to get you a seat if you score less than 65% in class 12," says Prabhat Sinha, who has put up an advertisement on olx.in. "But we can make it possible if you can pay one-and-a-half times the cost."
Medical seats are available starting at Rs 35 lakh for colleges affiliated to MGR University. A seat in a deemed university costs between 28 lakh to 30 lakhs.
Sinha offers medical seats in Chennai Medical College, Raja Muthiah College , Sathya Sai Medical College and Meenakshi Medical college, among many others. Medical seats are cheaper elsewhere, with seats in Karnataka on sale for 23 lakh and seats in Delhi available for as little as 10 lakh.
For engineering aspirants, a mechanical engineering seat at Amity University in Noida can be bought for 4 lakh to 5 lakh and the rate at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, also in Noida, is between 5 lakh to 8 lakh.
Several websites such as olx.in, sahipasand.com and locanto.in displaying advertisements which offer "direct admission in BE/BTech through the management quota". When contacted a few of these 'admission consultants' to find that seats at top medical and engineering colleges across the country were up for sale from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 12 lakhs.
An advertisement by Ashutosh Singh on sahipasand-. com provides career counseling , career guidance and direct admission in SRM University. When contacted, Singh asks, "What is your budget?"
A mechanical or computer engineering seat at the SRM main campus costs anything between Rs6.75 lakh and Rs 7 lakh. "Booking for the seats started in the last week of February. If you wait any longer, the rates are expected to go up," Singh says.
Rates are a little less for other campuses of the same institute. A seat can be had for Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh at the university's Ramapuram campus. "The major difference is the tall buildings on the main campus ," says Singh.
Aryan, of 'Inspire Consultancy’, has advertised on locanto.in. He offers, for a sum of Rs 15 lakh, a seat in any NIT (National Institute of Technology), which admits students through the centralized All-India Engineering Entrance Exam.
"It's a slightly illegal but I can access your answer sheet and mark the correct answers if you are willing to pay," he offers. But he suggests a private university, as the process is "safer and easier".
"Private colleges are also offering 300% placement," he says, referring to colleges which promise 3 jobs when a student graduates.
Rates can vary according to the courses too and you are likely to pay a heftier 'donation' if you score poorly in the class 12 exam. Seats in streams such as electronics and telecommunications engineering or electronics and instrumentation engineering are available for Rs. 1.5 lakh. "It is difficult to get you a seat if you score less than 65% in class 12," says Prabhat Sinha, who has put up an advertisement on olx.in. "But we can make it possible if you can pay one-and-a-half times the cost."
Medical seats are available starting at Rs 35 lakh for colleges affiliated to MGR University. A seat in a deemed university costs between 28 lakh to 30 lakhs.
Sinha offers medical seats in Chennai Medical College, Raja Muthiah College , Sathya Sai Medical College and Meenakshi Medical college, among many others. Medical seats are cheaper elsewhere, with seats in Karnataka on sale for 23 lakh and seats in Delhi available for as little as 10 lakh.
For engineering aspirants, a mechanical engineering seat at Amity University in Noida can be bought for 4 lakh to 5 lakh and the rate at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, also in Noida, is between 5 lakh to 8 lakh.
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