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| 06th
July 2010 / Times of India / Bangalore Edition |
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CET counselling for engg put off again
YET ANOTHER DELAY
Bangalore: The seat selection process for engineering
courses spread across 143 colleges will not begin on Wednesday
as scheduled. “The CET counselling has been postponed
by a week due to non-approval of seats in 37 colleges
by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE),’’
higher education minister Aravinda Limbavali told reporters
here on Monday.
He said they are planning to resume the counselling tentatively
on July 14 provided they get the nod from AICTE. “We
have deputed a senior official to New Delhi to pursue
the matter. I have also spoken to the AICTE chief in this
regard,’’ he added. Asked why the AICTE was
delaying to give its nod, Limbavali said they were in
the process of installing a new system to avoid such delays
in the future.
According to Sreekrishna Kumar, director of south west
regional office of AICTE, the last date to file appeals
by the colleges at the AICTE regional office was Monday,
5 pm. AICTE had, till Monday afternoon, received around
125 appeals. Thanks to new colleges, 1,500 more engineering
seats this yr
Bangalore: There could be an increase in the number of
engineering seats for Karnataka this year. Sreekrishna
Kumar, director of AICTE’s south-west regional office,
said: “In academic year 2009-10, there were 70,829
seats available for B Tech and 4,219 for M Tech in Karnataka.
The figures were 35,094 and 1,318 respectively in Kerala.
“This year, another 1,500 seats will be added in
both the states, thanks to the new colleges. Apart from
this, some have asked for increase in intake. There can
be 5% to 10% variation from previous years every time,”
Krishnakumar said.
“The figures (59,000) that are available on the
website are not updated. The correct ones also are yet
to be uploaded,” he added.
Higher education minister Aravinda Limbavali said during
his recent interaction with AICTE acting chairman S S
Mantha, he had suggested that the previous year’s
seat matrix should be approved if there was further delay.
If that is the case, number of seats in the previous year
available for CET counselling — 36,524, spread across
167 colleges — will be considered.
This year, however, only 30,512 engineering seats across
143 colleges are pending for approval. “We have
no communication or information about the intake of seats
in 24 colleges though 13 have given some information about
intake of only a few courses,” Limbavali added.
Though the minister is not supposed to have made this
announcement outside the House when the session is on,
he said he had obtained permission from the assembly Speaker
and the chief minister in the larger interest of students.
He said CET counselling will not happen without AICTE
approval as some reputed colleges including PESIT, M S
Ramaiah, R V, UBDT, will be missing from the seat matrix.
“In case we go ahead with counselling, then many
meritorious students will be deprived of getting admission
to these reputed colleges. And students may eventually
approach the court to get justice, further complicating
and delaying the process, he said.
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