It seems, you may now have to wait for more than 10 days to pick your engineering seats in Karnataka.
It seems, you may now have to wait for more than 10 days to pick your engineering seats in Karnataka.
Postponing the launch of the Common Entrance Test (CET) counselling for engineering courses to July 7 — it was earlier scheduled to begin on June 27 — state higher education minister VS Acharya assured that the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) would accord sanctions to all engineering colleges in the state by Tuesday.
Acharya said on Thursday last: “The counselling and seat selection process for admission to engineering courses will begin from July 7 in the state. AICTE has promised that it will release the seat matrix by June 28 (Tuesday).”
But that has failed to happen. Only 140 of the 189 engineering colleges in the state had received AICTE sanctions as of last week. AICTE was expected to approve these 40 engineering colleges on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Medical Council of India (MCI) approval for 700-odd medical seats are still pending, though the first round of counselling for admission to under-graduate medical and dental courses for the year 2011-12 ended on Friday last.
State medical education minister SA Ramdas flew to New Delhi on Tuesday to hold talk with MCI officials on the issue.
Ramdas had visited Delhi before the first round of medical counselling started and met MCI officials, requesting speedy completion of the process.
“MCI is doing it on priority-basis for Karnataka, but I don’t know why the approval process is getting delayed. I will meet MCI officials on Wednesday and discuss the issue with them,” Ramdas said. After fetching the MCI approval for the 700 medical seats, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) is planning to conduct a special round of counselling for those seats.
It may be recalled that, last year too, the government had to postpone the CET engineering counselling twice for the same reason. But Acharya had assured that: "There may not be anymore changes and the counselling will happen as per this schedule.” To ensure that, the minister insisted that the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) staff work even on Saturdays and Sundays.
Acharya had also made a trip to Delhi to discuss the issue with AICTE officials. But if the AICTE delays the approval of the engineering colleges further, the state government would be forced to alter the counselling schedule once again throwing the entire process into disarray. Moreover, AICTE approval for Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy courses are too pending. Counselling for these courses had been postponed and the dates are yet to be fixed.
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