Regressive engineering colleges of Tamil Nadu will remain so until parents change In

[V.Balasubramani]

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Regressive engineering colleges of Tamil Nadu will remain so until parents change

In spite of the outrage, how did such colleges thrive?

It was in 2007. A boy waiting for his college bus at the stop sees his girl classmate. He remembers it’s her birthday, goes ahead and shakes her hand, wishing her a happy birthday.

Within hours, he is suspended for one and half months by his college. A driver who had witnessed this ‘indecent’ behaviour had complained to administrators at Satyabhama Engineering College in Chennai, who later suspended the boy.

Working with a TV channel then, I had interviewed Jeppiar, the man who started the Jeppiar Institutions, of which Satyabhama was a flagship college. “Why should girls and boys shake hands? Only lovers shake hands,” he told me. He also said, “This is Tamil culture.”

That’s Jeppiar for you. He has never been secretive about the medieval rules that his colleges followed. Armed with a spy cam then, I had boarded one of the college buses and shot extensively inside three colleges in Chennai, some of them belonging to Jeppiar.

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[yesmohan]

Is it a better college in the eyes of the parents of girl students?

 

[V.Balasubramani]

When it comes to choosing a better Engineering college , parents pay more attention to location, Academic excellence, infrastructure, faculty, facilities like Lab, Library, etc and finally placement.

As for Boys and girls, they will have their friends group.

Initially no one looks into enforcement of strict discipline, dress code, etc by the colleges.

 

[V.Balasubramani]

'We are engineers, not criminals' say students protesting against bizarre rules in Chennai college –

Anna University has agreed to form a five member committee to investigate into some of the accusations

We are engineers, we are not criminals”, said one of the banners held by the students of the Sri Sai Ram Engineering College as they sat on a protest for the second day in Chennai.

More than 150 students of the college sat in protest outside the Anna University against the regressive laws of the college. With the college taking an antagonistic stand against the protest, the students had their faces covered with a piece of cloth.

Though the students were not allowed to talk to media on Wednesday, an anonymous student on Tuesday told The News Minute that they were protesting against the autocratic ways of Mr. Balu, the campus manager and the floor supervisors and wanted them to be removed from their posts. The student also said that the college had called up their parents and told them that they will be terminated from the college for the protest.

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