Amid a public outcry against consultancies for duping students for admissions in colleges outside J&K, the Kashmir-based consultants on Tuesday urged the state administration to regulate functioning of the outside actors.
Addressing reporters here, the Kashmir Career CounselingAssociation (KCCA) said the consultants coming from outside J&K set uptheir canopies in hotel rooms and offer admissions to Kashmiri students incolleges outside the state.
“There should be a proper mechanism to register careereducation consultancies through a regulatory authority. Local administrationshould set up norms and conditions for the outside consultants who run theiradmission melas (festivals) in the city and other districts,” said KCCAspokesman Muneeb Basit Bhat.
As reported by Greater Kashmir earlier, around 17 cases ofduping students by outside consultancies in Kashmir have been registered by theCrime Branch in past three years. The consultants have fraudulently taken moneyfrom Kashmiri students, aspiring to pursue their professional courses outsideJ&K state or abroad.
Bhat said the local consultancies are run by educated peopleand were providing employment to educated unemployed youth of the valley aswell.
“Government should put forth a mechanism for registration ofoutside consultancies which will put a control on the colleges outside Kashmirwho send their representatives to Kashmir for enrolling students in theircolleges and universities,” Bhat said.
Referring to the harassment of the valley students inoutside colleges in aftermath of Pulwama attack, KCCA said the outside collegesand universities should join hands with them under proper terms and conditions.
“Once they join hands with the local constants, safety ofthe students will become a joint responsibility of college and ourassociation,” the spokesman of the association said.
The complaints continue to pour in from parents and studentsin absence of any government regulations for these consultancies.
There has been a boom in career consultancies that set upoffices in a room of a local hotel here and lure students for admission incolleges and universities outside J&K or abroad.