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I am a B.Tech student at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, admitted in the 2024 admission cycle under the Non-Scholarship category.

I am currently applying for an education loan under the PM-Vidyalaxmi scheme. The scheme specifically allows students admitted on merit/open competitive examination and excludes management-quota admissions.

Here is where the absurdity begins.

Amrita's OWN admission website has a 2024 FAQ asking:

“Does Amrita offer admissions through a management quota?”

Their answer:

“There is no Management Quota in Amrita. Admissions are categorized into scholarship and non-scholarship categories.”

Even more importantly, the same Amrita admission page states:

“Admission to Non-Scholarship quota is based on the marks scored in the qualifying examination.”

So according to Amrita's own published admission information:

No Management Quota → Scholarship + Non-Scholarship → Non-Scholarship based on qualifying-exam marks.

Now, when I am trying to obtain a PM-Vidyalaxmi loan, I am suddenly being told that my Non-Scholarship admission is “not merit-based.”

Fine. Then I have a very simple question:

What exactly was the basis of my 2024 admission?

If Non-Scholarship was not merit-based, was it a management quota?

If it was a management quota, why did Amrita's own 2024 admission FAQ explicitly say:

“There is no Management Quota in Amrita”

and separately describe Non-Scholarship as a category?

And if Non-Scholarship was merit/academic-performance based, why can't Amrita simply issue a letter confirming this so that a student can submit it to the bank?

The situation has become even more frustrating because even when my bank's Zonal Office contacted Amrita for clarification several times, me or my bank have not received a proper response/clarification.

I am not asking Amrita to bend any rule for me.

I am asking for one thing:

Tell me, officially and in writing, what the admission category I was admitted under actually means.

If Amrita considers my admission Management Quota or equivalent to Management Quota, please provide the 2024 rule/document that says so.

If Amrita considers it merit-based, please issue a letter stating that.

If it is neither, then please explain exactly what admission criterion was used.

This is not some trivial terminology dispute. This classification directly affects my ability to access a Government of India education-loan scheme.

The irony is that the Government's PM-Vidyalaxmi guidelines specifically distinguish merit-based admission from management quota, while Amrita's own historical admission material appears to distinguish Non-Scholarship from Management Quota.

So which definition am I supposed to follow?

Amrita's published admission policy, or whatever interpretation is being given to the bank now?

I would genuinely appreciate input from:

- Current/former Amrita students who were admitted under Non-Scholarship

- Students who successfully obtained PM-Vidyalaxmi loans from Amrita

- Anyone familiar with Indian higher-education admission regulations

- Education-loan officers who have dealt with this issue

- Lawyers/people familiar with UGC student grievance procedures

What legal/administrative route can realistically be taken?

I am considering escalating this through the university's formal grievance mechanism and, if necessary, the UGC Student Grievance Redressal mechanism/Ombudsperson, rather than simply arguing with individual admission officers.

I would particularly like to know:

If a university's published admission material says one thing about its admission categories, but the university later refuses to certify the category for a Government education-loan scheme, what is the appropriate legal/administrative remedy?

I am posting this because I genuinely want an answer, not because I want anyone to manufacture one for me.

Amrita — if I am wrong, please correct me with the relevant 2024 admission document. If I am right, please issue the clarification instead of leaving the student and the bank to chase different offices.

Guys currently I'm in a tier 3 pvt college in Nagpur. And idk but I'm thinking of taking a partial drop for jee managing college and jee studies together, and score around 95%ile in jee and get UIT RGPV CSE through mpdte (Madhya Pradesh state counseling) it's also a tier 3 college but government with less fees as it's government and its campus is 200+ acres, basically I'll have a better college life there I think that but their placements are same like they have 4 - 6 avg lpa for cse, and for my college I'm in the third batch, first batch abhi tak graduate nahi hui hai. 2028 me first batch niklegi. What should I do Tell me your opinions

Im foreign student who studied in india applied to both and got seat in both colleges. However vit vellore is 9000 usd a year and srm is 7500. Which one is more worth. Studies, placements, college life etc. Financially a little constraints thats why wondering which is more worth

Let me explain.

Suppose every player in the Indian team played almost like Virat Kohli or Sachin Tendulkar , would we still treat them the same way? Nah, right? That’s the point.

Now let me show you how deep the problem goes and why these colleges are worse than you think.

- A faculty member handling placements told us the placement percentage for 2025 was 23.8%. Let’s round it to 25% for simplicity. That means 75% students are unplaced.

what's scary is , around 4000 students take admission every year in just CSE at Chandigarh University.Do the math ~3000 students unplaced, and this is just one branch of just one field of just one college.

And placements are just one part.

NIRF RANKINGS

I don’t know the exact formula, but it involves research papers and patents.

Reality?Most papers either get rejected or are straight-up low quality. Even accepted ones , a huge chunk are made using shady sources. You can literally get this done for ₹1000–1500.

Now patents?

Filing a patent in India costs ₹1,600. Government reimbursement goes up to ₹2 lakh per filing. That's a 125x return, before the patent does anything useful.

These Institutions found the arbitrage. File at scale, collect reimbursements, use this to climb NIRF rankings, attract students. Repeat.

The problem isn't the universities. The problem is what we're measuring in NIRF, QS, THE rankings.All these weights raw filings, not grants. Not commercialization. Not real-world impact. So the rational move becomes filing at scale rather than building genuine IP.

Institution / Group	Period	Applications Filed	Patents Granted	Grant Rate	Notes
All IITs (combined)	2020–2025	6,558	2,806	~42.8%	Strong quality, high conversion rate.
LPU	2020–2025	7,096	162	~2.3%	High filing volume, very poor conversion.
Chandigarh University	2020–2025	5,318	45	~0.8%	Aggressive filings, extremely low succes
Galgotias University	2020–2025	2,233	2	~0.1%	Almost no grants despite large number of filings
Jain University	2020–2025	2,835	12	~0.4%	High filings, very low approval rate.
Teerthanker Mahaveer University	2020–2025	2,054	6	~0.3%	Same pattern: quantity‑focused, negligible outcomes

A bigger picture of what i just said

But why is all the blame on colleges like Chandigarh University and not others?

Because a huge chunk of colleges fall into this exact category. These aren’t some random tier-69 institutes nobody expects anything from , these are the ones that market themselves as serious contenders. If you’re charging premium fees and flexing rankings, you don’t get to act like “average” later.

Go check the fee structure yourself. For what they’re charging, what are students actually getting?No top-tier faculty. No cutting-edge tech. No real advantage. Just branding.

But IITs have:

* better faculty

* better peer group

* better funding

* actual research ecosystem

Fair enough.

But then explain this ,why are colleges like CU showcasing NIRF rankings where they’re placed above some IITs and NITs?

National Institutional Ranking Framework rankings putting them above institutes that are objectively better just kills credibility.

You can’t claim “we’re better than IITs” on paper and then deliver nowhere close in reality.

That’s the real issue , not just poor outcomes

Coming back to placement here is real picture - these are last one and half month of data



https://preview.redd.it/7nm7ps7fovqg1.png?width=1010&format=png&auto=webp&s=06e5a7c6658c13b1a39f00d9a98f0a3d3d35a76d

This is not all but you know how the rest of metrics would look like if i write them here

So yeah this was my personal opinion , feel free to add yours , and sorry if the texts are messy i didn't want chatgpt to be involved and wanted to keep the tone real and raw

Today, the terrace of our hostel has been locked as per instructions received from the supreme court.

Students committing suicide in technical and medical universities are reaching high rates and how do they decide to solve that problem? By putting a band-aid on a problem that has been growing like weed for the past century. A highly outdated education system, an exponentially rising population that directly enhances the toxic competitive environment, the rise of Hindutva causing divide among the population, and a severe lack of a solution to the caste system. The government relies on the infighting of its civilians, dodging a need to do anything about it.

No wonder students of this country are depressed. They know how mentally exhausted we are. And yet, they can barely do anything about their mental health.

A terrace is hardly the only way to die, I'd say, there are much better ways to die if someone really wanted to. It does not solve the problem at all. The root causes remain, the deep rooted societal and parental pressure, living in a shame-based society, a lack of support and finally, an educational system that is still bad.

They are doing nothing but taking away a place where people go to dry their clothes and get fresh air. Girls hostels already have strict in-times. Ours is 7 pm, and we are practically caged after 10 pm as both our main gate and hostel grill is locked. We cannot even visit the neighbouring girls hostel. The terrace was all we had after 10 pm. There is also no record of anyone dying there. However, the boys hostels have had deaths and most don't even have a terrace. In fact, the only boys hostel with a terrace won't be close because they don't have a door. So yeah, add misogyny and sexism to the whole thing too.

I remember when I was having a hard time in my life.

Nothing made me feel better than looking up at the stars in the night sky from the terrace as the cold night air hit my face.

Goodbye, old friend.

Hey I am serious here, not joking.

I am M(bisexual) and will be in college next year, so I just wanted to know-

"How to hide $€x toys in college?"

I am not kidding 😭🙏, like I heard there are double and triple sharing rooms, sometimes even quadruple ,and I own some, so how do I hide, you know about guys in India , specially in engineering . Please suggest some ways.

So, I live in west bengal and it's famous for only one good college that is Jadavpur University, The rest of all good engg colleges are only accessible through jee and not WBJEE... Sometimes I wonder if it would have been so better if I would have lived in Delhi where the competition is also relatively low and also u get numerous good options to do engg.

Or maybe in Maharashtra or Karnataka, Both offering a good amount of colleges.

The sad part of WBJEE is that, after Jadavpur, all r tier 3 and 69 college which does not provide much opportunities. If you look at this year's counselling cutoff, y'all will find that under 2k rank in Wbjee also was in a tier 3 pvt college.

So what do we learn, competition remains high, seats remain low, and quality also is poor.