Following the State government’s order, Visvesvaraya Technological University has instructed all private engineering colleges not to collect any fee from students of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities eligible for Post-matric Scholarship Programme during admission. Under this programme, scholarships are being sanctioned to SC-ST students pursuing various post-matric courses and whose family income is less than ₹2.5 lakh per annum. …
Poor enrolment and lack of government support have put the ambitious Kannada medium engineering course, started at the Visvesvaraya Technological University two years ago, in peril. During the 2021-22 academic year, SJC Institute of Technology-Chickballapur, Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology, Bhalki, and three other private engineering colleges opted to offer Kannada medium engineering courses. S. Vidyashankar, Vice Chancellor of VTU, …
