PROJECTS ON DEMAND
Ready MBA, MCA, engg projects are sold on net, which students can buy and submit for credits. This can be checked only if teachers monitor students’ progress every week
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Monday, May 20, 2013 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/201305202013052000593974685e91384/PROJECTS-ON-DEMAND.html
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Monday, May 20, 2013 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/201305202013052000593974685e91384/PROJECTS-ON-DEMAND.html
Need to submit a project, but busy with parties? Or maybe too bogged down with other assignments? For all such troubled students here is something god send. A few angles have descended upon the earth to ensure that education doesn’t come in way of their degree collection.
The troubled souls may outsource their headache, and along with it their learning to them. The service providers will ensure they have a heap of papers, typed and bound, to submit well before the deadline. If the students are in a hurry, they can simply take one from them over the counter.
Of course, all this for a consideration. Cyber space abounds with advertisements of several service providers who are ready to do the seventh and eighth semester projects of engineering students for a price that varies from Rs 1500 to Rs 15,000.
Students could be assured of the ready-tosubmit projects fetching them decent percentage, for the projects are done by graduates who have been there and done that, not just in engineering, but also in management studies and computer application. They are into it because they either didn’t land a decent job or found the project business more lucrative.
To lure the potential “customers” they advertise their qualification, like BE or MCA. The projects range from the traditional mechanical, civil and electrical to the relatively new and emerging areas like electronics, computer, and instrumentation and control.
One may opt for “full project report”, “full explanation of project” or simply “guidance of project”. The service providers even prepare the clients for the viva voce by giving them the questions that could be raised about the project. For answers, one does not have to worry. They will provide the students with those too.
DISCOUNT FOR BULK BUY
If the students find the fee a tad too high there are ways to bring it down, too. Five per cent discount is offered upfront if a student orders for two or more projects. So that, all the students have to do is to come together and place the order for two papers from the same service provider.
The project may involve a research, preparing a model, writing the report and defending or explaining it to a jury. To check their how genuine they were this correspondent posed as a seventh semester student from LD College of Engineering — students of seventh and eighth semesters are required to do a project that carries up to 200 marks, depending on the branch they are in – and spoke to a few of those service providers. Said Abhi Verma, who advertises himself as ‘BE Electronics’ and has office in Bodakdev, “We have several ready projects. They cost from Rs 3,000 to Rs 15,000 depending on the level you require. We can give you projects in any field that you say.”
‘NOTHING EVER HAS GONE WRONG’
Though only a graduate, he offers projects for postgraduate courses, too. And in any branch. Verma was reluctant to share the kind of clientele he has: students from government or private and self-financed colleges.
“You bother about your own project, why are you poking your nose in others’ business?” When told that this “student” was a little scared as he was getting such a project done for the first time, he asked him to rest assured as he has quite a few students from private colleges and nothing has ever gone wrong.
This correspondent also spoke to a person who identified himself as Sheetal and had advertised on the web site. He was ready to prepare any project in any field. “We will explain the model well enough for you so that your can explain it to others. One project would cost Rs 5,000 but if you find the fee too high, come over, I shall give you a concession.”
VARSITY AWARE OF RACKET GTU
Vice Chancellor Akshai Aggarwal said he was aware of such misdeeds, but teachers were more to blame for it. “The students are supposed to do a project either by themselves of in the industry so that they learn something worthwhile. Teachers are supposed to monitor the students’ progress every week. Students will be able to outsource their projects only if teachers do not monitor their progress.”
To prevent this malpractice, sometime back GTU hired an IT firm which would go through the students’ projects and crosscheck them with industry and experts. They were to report good and unique projects which GTU planned to promote further. “Unfortunately, some of the executives of that company were found indulging in the practice. We dropped that firm,” Dr Aggarwal said.
He said that the university had once penalised a college in north Gujarat from where it had received reports of malpractice. “We had also warned a senior professor in Vadodara who headed a department when we learnt that he was promoting such practice.” Now the innovation council keeps tab on projects, he said, but “ultimately it depends on the ethical standard that the teachers and students set for themselves,” he added.
The troubled souls may outsource their headache, and along with it their learning to them. The service providers will ensure they have a heap of papers, typed and bound, to submit well before the deadline. If the students are in a hurry, they can simply take one from them over the counter.
Of course, all this for a consideration. Cyber space abounds with advertisements of several service providers who are ready to do the seventh and eighth semester projects of engineering students for a price that varies from Rs 1500 to Rs 15,000.
Students could be assured of the ready-tosubmit projects fetching them decent percentage, for the projects are done by graduates who have been there and done that, not just in engineering, but also in management studies and computer application. They are into it because they either didn’t land a decent job or found the project business more lucrative.
To lure the potential “customers” they advertise their qualification, like BE or MCA. The projects range from the traditional mechanical, civil and electrical to the relatively new and emerging areas like electronics, computer, and instrumentation and control.
One may opt for “full project report”, “full explanation of project” or simply “guidance of project”. The service providers even prepare the clients for the viva voce by giving them the questions that could be raised about the project. For answers, one does not have to worry. They will provide the students with those too.
DISCOUNT FOR BULK BUY
If the students find the fee a tad too high there are ways to bring it down, too. Five per cent discount is offered upfront if a student orders for two or more projects. So that, all the students have to do is to come together and place the order for two papers from the same service provider.
The project may involve a research, preparing a model, writing the report and defending or explaining it to a jury. To check their how genuine they were this correspondent posed as a seventh semester student from LD College of Engineering — students of seventh and eighth semesters are required to do a project that carries up to 200 marks, depending on the branch they are in – and spoke to a few of those service providers. Said Abhi Verma, who advertises himself as ‘BE Electronics’ and has office in Bodakdev, “We have several ready projects. They cost from Rs 3,000 to Rs 15,000 depending on the level you require. We can give you projects in any field that you say.”
‘NOTHING EVER HAS GONE WRONG’
Though only a graduate, he offers projects for postgraduate courses, too. And in any branch. Verma was reluctant to share the kind of clientele he has: students from government or private and self-financed colleges.
“You bother about your own project, why are you poking your nose in others’ business?” When told that this “student” was a little scared as he was getting such a project done for the first time, he asked him to rest assured as he has quite a few students from private colleges and nothing has ever gone wrong.
This correspondent also spoke to a person who identified himself as Sheetal and had advertised on the web site. He was ready to prepare any project in any field. “We will explain the model well enough for you so that your can explain it to others. One project would cost Rs 5,000 but if you find the fee too high, come over, I shall give you a concession.”
VARSITY AWARE OF RACKET GTU
Vice Chancellor Akshai Aggarwal said he was aware of such misdeeds, but teachers were more to blame for it. “The students are supposed to do a project either by themselves of in the industry so that they learn something worthwhile. Teachers are supposed to monitor the students’ progress every week. Students will be able to outsource their projects only if teachers do not monitor their progress.”
To prevent this malpractice, sometime back GTU hired an IT firm which would go through the students’ projects and crosscheck them with industry and experts. They were to report good and unique projects which GTU planned to promote further. “Unfortunately, some of the executives of that company were found indulging in the practice. We dropped that firm,” Dr Aggarwal said.
He said that the university had once penalised a college in north Gujarat from where it had received reports of malpractice. “We had also warned a senior professor in Vadodara who headed a department when we learnt that he was promoting such practice.” Now the innovation council keeps tab on projects, he said, but “ultimately it depends on the ethical standard that the teachers and students set for themselves,” he added.
