AGARTALA, June 15 (TIWN): After criticism loomed over the negligence of higher education department under the tyranny of left front, the department has finally slammed a rule over the authority of Education Fair organizer committee to take prior permission and registration from the state higher education department before organizing any fair in the state, said a highly placed official.

In a meeting between the concerned authorities it was decided that the Education Fair organizing committee has to ask for prior permission and to maintain a registration of their colleges and universities from the state’s higher education department before organizing any fair in the state.

According to our source, the illegal business in the name of admitting students in ‘C’ category colleges by a section of brokers and agents has become rampant in Tripura and for past around four years state government has shown their negligence in this issue. Finally, after the opposition loomed the state higher education department in the trap of criticism, the state government has finally taken a step to give a stop to this era of illegal education business in the state.

Reportedly, some brokers and fraud agents were engaged with these fraudulent activities where thousands of Tripura students were victimized. Since last four years the brokers and fraud agents of different ‘C’ category colleges, were playing fraud with the students in the name of getting them admission in those colleges in return of hefty amount.

Every year ample of brokers and fraud agents get engaged to enroll the students in private or non-existent colleges, and manages to take students from Tripura in exchange of hefty amount in the name of getting them admission. However, in reality it was found that those colleges are of ‘C’ category and they are non-affiliated colleges.

Interestingly, in such period of crisis, allegedly the state govt. here had no report of it and neither had it done any registration of the colleges so far. As a result the students of Tripura are getting victimized in the hands of fraud brokers and agents.

The brokers and agents who come here in the state every year to admit students in the colleges in the name of “A” category college mainly targets the rural students but very few students from the city, as a result their insecure futures stops at one point of time. Talking to some student it was revealed that the colleges were found having no affiliation or either their affiliation has been cancelled and the students are getting deprived at large.

At least 2000 to 3000 students are going out of the state for perusing higher studies, but are deprived at large at those abroad ‘C’ category colleges, where they do not have minimum accommodations and infrastructures for the students.

However, finally the state Higher Education department has requested all the aspiring students and guardians to do proper scrutiny about the college or university before taking admission.