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This is the time of the year when senior officials (I would call them sharks) of so-called ‘leading universities’ in India visit the Gulf to lure students to their institutions, and I am writing this as a warning to parents before they shell out huge amounts of money for admission.
I will narrate my story here. Four years ago, the director, international relations, of a Amrita University, Ettimadi, Coimbatore, India, which has campuses in Kerala and Karnataka, visited Muscat scouting for students. I met him at an Indian school in Dubai and paid the Rs 700, 000 he demanded for my son’s admission in the university’s engineering (IT branch) college.
Initially, I was reluctant to pay such a big sum, but he said: ‘You
have to decide fast, because there are hundreds in the queue’. He also boasted that ‘not a single student who graduated from our university remains unemployed’, and listed the names all the top IT companies who visited his university for on-campus recruitment every year.
Ultimately, because I had no other option at the time, I paid. I am repenting now. For so many reasons.
First, this ‘great’ university has discontinued its IT course! So much for campus selection.
Second, I found out that the teaching standards are sub-standard, to say the least. Most of the teachers are fresh engineering graduates without any experience and don’t even speak correct English (forget about good English). Half the time they conduct classes in Tamil. Any student who dares to request a clarification is insulted in front of the entire class. Once during a visit there, I mentioned this to this gentleman, the Director, International Relations. His answer was: ‘Well, you bring good teachers, we are prepared to pay them Rs100, 000 a month… We are trying, but we don’t get properly qualified teachers!’
Third, the atmosphere on the campus is oppressive. The teaching staff and administration officials misbehave with students for the slightest of reasons. They insult and abuse students openly, totally demoralising them. In fact, students are scared of the staff and don’t speak out openly.
Fourth, the conditions in the hostels are deplorable, particularly in relation to food served to inmates. Most students are forced to eat at the canteens within the campus, paying exorbitant prices. The parents, thus, end up paying the mess fees plus the canteen expenses!
After my visit to the university, I discovered that this is a very cleverly planned trick, in the sense that the university makes huge profits from leasing out the canteens. I counted at least four sprawling canteens, all crowded all the time, and two more were under construction. Thus the reason for the poor quality food in the hostel mess becomes obvious.
I write this letter to caution parents to be vigilant. Please do not pay any money unless and until you make your own investigations about the university/college where you are planning to admit your children. Don’t be duped by the big-name institutions.
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Please join Karunya University .It has better management, excellent faculty and a peaceful atmosphere.It is run by our beloved Dr.Paul Dhinakaran who has done a lot for the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden.
The security at the gate seems to be very strict - in actual fact it is not the case, just a show of power. When I visited the college the security said only parent and a driver can go, but behind there is another car with 6 persons seeking for admission for "a" student being allowed. Office staff are unfit to be employed in an university. Soon the value of the University will reach the dead end
Dear FacultyofAmritaCBE,
I have read your post. Since u work here, its natural for u to put Jaalra for this college. My views on ur post and my views are True:
1. u said that students dont walk as couples inside the campus, but I can see couples everywhere and after 6, they behave somewhat differently,
2. u said that some students buy projects from Gandhipuram bus stand... U seemed to be funny and ended up with a bad joke... I ask u. U are a faculty right? Would you dare to build your own project? every engineering student in Tamilnadu get their project from a centre and Amrita is not an exception .
3. U said food is nice... yes very nice non veg like cockroaches and for mineral supplementation we get Iron scraps in food,
4. U said that V.C. is a great visionary... This comes under a good joke. Does any single student remember V.C, doing a single thing for this college... Atleast do they know who is V.C? For 99.99% of the time he is in Foreign like our honourable PM,
5. And finally DEAN, ENGINEERING, I am referring to ex.dean M.P.C... God is there. He got the punishment what he deserved! The poor fellow had to run out of this college... Shame on him. If he is efficient in solving students' issues, why does he want to, LITERALLY, run out out of the college with heels touching his heads? Poor fellow.
Intended at -Jayakrishnan-
E-Mail: sauravjay@hotmail.com
Mr.Honorary BROKER, sorry... Educational consultant,
I would like to know your Educational qualification, first of all. You said why pay rs.7 lakh for an engineering seat and people like it promote corruption. Why does a holy institution run under the chancellorship of a so called goddess, collect such a huge money? Huh... May be the swamijis need to eat high protein rich diets and have swiss bank accounts. Mark my words... BROKERS (in the guise of educational consultants) like you should be condemned. Dont you have any other means for living? why play in a student's career?
i have joined the amrita coimbatore campus PG program..Can anyone tell me about the hostel rules and regulations?
Many people and most of them are my elders... I accept all your points. If I am given a chance, I have got some points which I wana say
1. Yes, the food sucks in Amrita.
2. Yes, The fee structure in Amrita is high.
3. Most of the faculty are less educated... Am sorry. U met the wrong person.
4. One may boast you, but its true, how so high the fee may be there are hundreds of people to get a seat in Amrita.
5. is it that easy to score high here? you are kidding. Hardly there are 10 9pointers in entire mech, ece, eee dept individually. Majority of the university are 6-7 pointers. :( If it is that easy to mug and score, then 70% of the students are from stateboard, atleast there would have been atleast 25% 9 pointers, but for ur info there are only less than 4% in every branch.
6. He asked you to pay Rs.7lakh? May be. I agree with. But a point why should you buy a seat? :) why should you go for management quota? is your ward that unfit for merit quota? Chill
let me explain this... if the ward of the person, who paid 7lakh, and gets a merit seat, would have been this complaint ? no...
7. IT removed..? yes it is. For the sake of placements it is removed? yes. But y do u bother if it is called cse or IT? either cse or IT?the student gonna placed in the same company, will be eligible for gate, gre and will be studying the respective syllabus. i dont think calling a horse as donkey will change that horse to donkey.
Conclusion: Dialogues..every one can tell, , From the river banks every one can speak.. but listen to the one who is in waters and not on bank. Every college has got merits and demerits. Simiarly Amrita has got its own merits and demerits. My parents asked me to study here. I studied here taking education loan. my life was simpler. I am placed in the early 7th sem in a Fortune 50 company. I am happy here. I came here to live and not to COMPLAIN.
To all parents who may be planning to get a place at the Ettimadai campus for their kids, please be rest assured that if you can afford to dish out enough cash, there is absolutely no problem in getting admission. But please do think a million times before enrolling your child in this so-called prestigious uni as the kids really suffer in the hostels which provide the very minimum of facilities. The wardens are downright rude and not in the least bit understanding when it comes to discipling students. If they were to allow the students a little more freedom, the kids would actually be better behaved. The mess too is indeed a mess. The food served is monotonous and the poor kids are forced to eat the same things everyday. The canteens do not provide much respite. I believe the dean and other senior professors who live on the campus live a lavish life. How I wish someone would provide them with the same kind of food everyday so that they get an idea of how kids live there.
My son passed out after his UG prog and I would not dream of putting him there for his higher studies. The so-called campus selection takes place in every good uni and the authorities need not boast about it as I know several students from the campus who are yet to bag a good job. The kids are mainly taught by youngsters who have just completed their graduation. Some of them feel very apologetic to their students when they are strict and inform the students that they are simply following instructions of their senior profs. Discipline is important at this stage of life but too much of it can lead to the kids losing all control later on in life when they do get their freedom. When will the uni authorities realize all this ? Someone out there please inform AMMA of the injustice at the Ettimadai campus. I am sure she would not condone such goings on. So prospective parents of students entering Etimadai, please don't put your child thru' what my kid had to go thru'. had i known this before i would definitely have looked elsewhere. Let our kids enjoy their college life. after all, didn't we ?
It is not only Amrita University which is accused of being negligent but Amma AIMS hospitals are accused of fraud, discrimination to poor people and violent beating of striking nurses.
The Amma cult destroyed the Ex-Amma Forum mentioned above 27th of May, 2011 by Tears by a new forum has arisen from the ashes hosted on YahooGroups. Do not confuse with old forum, the new group is here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ex-amma/
http://amma-taavi-kassila-sex-cover-up.blogspot.in/2013/03/Amritanandamayi-Cult-Devotee-Vandalizes-Ex-Amma-Website.html
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i was 2 years late in reading the above comments and the author's complaint..
Well true the college is a suck up... 3 yrs i sat n ate the palatable idillys, dosas, pongals( looks like vomit), the so called pooris ( i call it mini papads), etc... about the hygiene...yes it is hygienic.. but let me put forward an example: i feed you oats and milk 3 meals a day for a week... ofcourse your going to remain healthy.. but is that going to suffice ... 2yrs of this ### ... literally speaking at times the food looks like ### to..
And about the talks that other colleges in tamilnadu serve worse... people we pay 35k a year... other colleges its less than 20k... so that's no justice to the money that our parents spent on mess food... just one of the quixotic money making strategies that amrita practices.
The next and the biggest joke of Amrita is its mechanical enginnering faculty(as far as i know...coz im doing my mechanical engg)...
The so called HOD .. the biggest [censored] living on the planet earth... for the 3rd year of b.tech mechanical... the teaching faculty was simply pathetic... fresh M.tech pass outs are appointed to teach us, that to subjects which they have not majored in. They have no experience, they do not know the head or tails of the subject that is being taught( at times we students have to tutor the teachers during class), in the end of the day, they feel like they have done their job and set question papers which i bet if they sat and wrote it along with me, i could kill them at it.
Despite teaching in the most deplorable way.. they correct out answer sheets expecting P.HD level answers.
But then again.. there are good teaching faculties to.. but its no excuse for hiring incompetent once.
Our campus spends lakhs and lakhs of rupees on worthless things..
eg
like the have put up cement benches almost at every nuke n corner of the campus.. especially places where students do not even pass by or bother sitting...
changing the lawns weekly ( such a wasteful process)... instead of changing it every week...why the hell cant they just maintain it
extending the electrical fences further around the campus...
these idots have not bothered about
fixing the main gym
setting up AC's at the C.I.R block ( its inside gets insanely hot during the summers...as they appointed smart architects who put up a glass like roof on it)
improving the outdoor games facility
buying better sports equipment
improving the GOD DAMNED FOOD
recruiting better teachers ( do not give me the bull crap that you are ready to pay 1lakh per month despite which you are not able to get proficient teaching staff)
Finally the pass system.
i am not sure whether i joined a college or kindergarten.. my school way better than my college will ever be.. the lack of independence makes me feel like i'm some convicted felon living my life behind bars... its so demeaning and demotivating and depressing
people.. if u want to witness and know what college life is all about ... amrita is not a place i suggest..
but if u feel u need some rehabilitation for some ### that you have gone through before college...amrita welcomes you with open arms..
THINK ON YOUR SINS...before you decide on amrita.. and see if its worth it
I did my post graduation from Amrita university.I was actually shocked to read all the above comments.I did my studies in Amritapuri campus.I should say it is in par with IITs.We even have interactive sessions with the best universities of the world like MIT.The food is great!Hostel accommodation-I do not want to call it a hostel .It was a very peaceful place to stay.The warden, she behaved to us like our grandma.I respect my alma mater and I am proud of it.To add to this, all our faculty are highly qualified.Our dean is a very very down to earth person and high quality research is conducted in this institution.