A prominent college in Coimbatore is charging 14 to 21 lakhs for admission to their B.Tech IT course this year - so says todays `Malayala Manorama'. Students from Kerala are reportedly flooding Coimbatore looking for professional college admission because of the confusion with regards to self financing colleges here.

Vivek says Microsoft has taken 8 students from Govt.Engg College, Trivandrum - the salary is said to be around 9 lakhs!

Our `industry' is surely booming!