Bhubaneswar, April 24: A two-day interactive workshop titled “The Road Ahead – for speedy reforms in OJEE 2013” organised by around 50 private engineering colleges concluded today.

The Odisha Technical Colleges’ Association presented a 10-point charter of recommendations to the department of technical education for consideration.

The association sought a fixed OJEE calendar and timely declaration of results (along with other states and private universities) so that students don’t have to suffer and have the flexibility of choosing colleges and streams of their choice.

To make the entire procedure more convenient, the association proposed for payment of admission fee, installation of CCTV cameras, surprise visits by OJEE officials at nodal centres, physical verification of certificates, updating of the seat matrix and flexibility in choosing the nodal centres.

L.N. Panda, chairman of OJEE, made the delegates go through the detailed process of OJEE in his presentation and challenges faced in the exercise.

Priyabrata Sahu, secretary of OJEE said there should be transparency in OJEE.

For the past three years, OJEE has come under severe criticism from various communities, especially from students appearing from OJEE and their parents, for tedious application process, delay in results, malpractices in counselling and various other procedures that had severely affected careers of students.

This has also resulted in migration of students to other states for technical education, resulting in a large number of seats going vacant in various colleges in the state. The damages are so high that some colleges have either closed down entirely or scrapped some of their courses.