For last few years, most engineering colleges are facing seat vacancy issue as students are showing inclination to get admitted in the institutions that have several prospective aspects including quality of education maintained by them. Obviously, only these few colleges are witnessing good number of admissions. The colleges that have registering to attract students, are trying to get admissions through various means.

 

These various means include going through private agents, approaching coaching classes, taking junior colleges into confidence, etc. One more agent is doing this duty of bringing admission to the college. The name of this agent is Net cafe. With COVID-19 pandemic around most single transaction are being conducted on-line. Obviously, Director of Technical Education (DTE) Dr Abhay Wagh has made all the procedures related to engineering admissions too on-line. There are several students who either don’t have access to the Internet or they don’t understand the procedure; so they choose the easy option of visiting an Internet cafe. Some of these net cafes have good connection with the agents who provide admissions to colleges. When students approach them with a work of completing the procedure of engineering admissions. They take all the details from the students.

 

The information is filled on the admissions site and then OTP is generated. The OTP comes on the student’s mobile. Students provide the same to the cafe-owners as demanded by them. The password too is created during the same procedure and the cafe-owners keep all the details with them. They misguide students while making choices of engineering colleges. Most students don’t understand the trick by cafe-owners and get trapped. By the time students realise that they have been misled, the agents have already done their job. Some engineering colleges have come forward raising the issue of the net cafes, but they don’t want to talk on record.

 

The students who get deceived they too don’t come forward because of fear or they are not in a mood to get entangled in the whole affair. When ‘The Hitavada’ contacted Dr Abhay Wagh, the Director of Technical Education (DTE) he said, “Yes, we have got some information about the involvement of net cafes. But we don’t have received any official complaint. In all circumstances, this problem can’t be ignored and I appeal students and their parents to beware from such elements and don’t share OTP, password to any private agency.”