Central council rejects Karnataka’s plan to allot 5% more engineering seats to diploma holders seeking lateral entry.
The state department of higher education is in trouble because the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has not accepted its request to increase the engineering quota for diploma students making a lateral entry from 10% to 15% of the seats
Till 2009, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) used to allot 10% of engineering seats in the second-year of engineering courses to diploma students. In 2009, the department decided to increase make it 15% and allotted seats on that basis. But the plan has been rejected by the AICTE.
This has affected students willing to take engineering seats through lateral entry. According to statistics available with the department, nearly 17,000 diploma holders have applied for admission this year, but only half of them can be given engineering seats.
State higher education minister Aravinda Limbavali said the department was still trying to the AICTE approval. “I will try to get it before the completion of the counselling process. This year, 16,865 students had applied and all of them are eligible.”
Limbavali said he was planning to meet the human resource development minister Kapil Sibal to discuss admission for diploma students. “I have already met him once and discussed this. I am planning to meet him again and submit a memorandum. I will try to make him understand the situation and the demand for engineering seats from students seeking lateral entry,” Limbavali said.
For the time being, KEA found an alternative way to allot seats at least for some students. “We will allot the seats left over last year (CET 2009) to diploma students. Last year, nearly 1,500 government quota seats with KEA were not filled. So, we will allot them to diploma students seeking lateral entry to the second year.”
These 1,500 seats will be in addition to the 8,542 (10%) seats already reserved for diploma students.
And for the first time, KEA will admit diploma students to the aeronautical engineering course. If AICTE approves the extra 5% seats, they will be available for students in the casual round.
Limbavali said that all engineering colleges must admit supplementary students who have got seats through the CET. “If there are government seats left in any college, we will fill it with eligible supplementary students. Nobody can object to it,” he said.
On Monday, Limbavali felicitated the first 13 rank holders in the diploma. Vinay SK had secured the first rank.
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