A file picture of a CET counselling session in Bengaluru.
To curb the engineering seat blocking racket, discovered to be energetic throughout the 2023 and 2024 CET counselling, the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has now requested the State authorities to make sure that all vacant authorities quota seats after the second prolonged spherical in personal engineering schools are allotted by means of KEA solely.
KEA has now requested the State authorities to incorporate this clause within the consensual settlement with personal engineering schools from subsequent yr. It has additionally proposed that COMED-Ok counselling ought to start solely after the primary spherical of KEA counselling.
Presently, these seats are being handed over to those schools and managements cost hefty charges to allot these seats. If these vacant seats are additionally allotted by means of KEA, the motivation for blocking seats in counselling shall be faraway from the system.
‘College students getting cheated’
“As per the Supreme Courtroom verdict, even when just one seat stays vacant in NEET counselling, it needs to be stuffed by means of KEA solely. However these vacant seats are handed over to engineering schools. Nonetheless, it has been discovered that some schools are dishonest college students and changing authorities quota seats into administration seats by operating a seat blocking rip-off. To stop this, we now have now really useful that the NEET process be adopted to engineering seat allotment as properly,” stated H. Prasanna, Govt Director, KEA.
Of the scholars who acquired authorities quota seats within the second prolonged spherical of CET-2024 counselling, 2,625 of them haven’t been admitted to the popular school. Consequently, different eligible and college students are disadvantaged of their seats. KEA issued notices to all these college students. Whereas many had explanations like securing a medical seat, a seat exterior the State.
Nonetheless, a number of college students complained to KEA that they’d not even performed choice entry, as they joined different programs in different states, which triggered a probe. Fifty-four of those college students had been discovered to have been allotted seats within the BMS Engineering Faculty (Aided and Unaided), Akash Institute of Engineering & Know-how and New Horizon Faculty of Engineering.
KEA has now filed a criticism over misuse of their Login ID and passwords, after it was discovered that only some IP addresses had been used for choice entry of those college students misusing their credentials. An FIR has been registered, and a probe is on.
Printed – November 15, 2024 05:50 am IST
