Admission in Engineering Collage

July 1971, me and Ashok along with Dadda (Taujee) went to the engineering collage after ensuring our names in the admission list. The tuition fee that time was Rs 200 a month we had to pay Rs 1800 each for the nine month session and Rs 5/- per month as hostel fee the total came to around Rs 1850 per annum, The hostel was ‘c’ hostel only for first year students of the collage, each room had three occupancy We both were allotted room no 16 in the upper wing the third partner was K Jagdishan, south Indians from Bhilai. That was five years integrated course after eleventh standard unlike to days 10+2+4 it was 11+5 The first two years were common for all the students, In the first year the subjects were English Mathematics (in three parts ie Arthmatics Algebra and Trigonometry) Physics, Chemistry subjects taught to the science students in the first year. Three were no subject of engineering in the first year
My first day in the collage was very interesting both of us in search of the allotted class room S-11 (second floor eleven number) were passing through the corridor, some senior student standing in the corridor called as, we were wearing slippers we had heard about the ragging perhaps it was the first “kyon bathroom men aya ho kya” we both stood in attention position looking at our feet without saying a single work. Then one of them said “Kal Aakar Apane Pahne Huai Jute Dikha kar Jana”
That evening we both on the green color Rally cycle given by my father to me in school went rushing to the city double seat to buy the shoes, those were shoes made of rubber, it was raining cats and dogs and next morning putting on those shoes we went to that seniors class S-1 fortunately for us that was off period for seniors and it was Final year Mechanical Engineering. Continued in the next blog.