Bangalore: Karnataka Government is holding talks with the managements of private engineering colleges, to fill up the 7,000 vacant seats through Common Entrance Test (CET) rankings.
Aravind Limbavali, Minister for Higher Education, in a media release, said that representatives of the COMED-K (Consortium of Private Medical and Engineering Colleges) had requested the government for help to fill up the 7,000 vacant seats in private engineering colleges, for the upcoming academic session. He further mentioned that the engineering college managements have emphatically been told that the government would only step in if the fee structure matches with the Government quota of seats in private colleges. Students under the Government quota have to pay Rs 25000 a year and for students belonging to the lower economic sections, the fee is fixed at Rs 15000 a year.
According to the agreement between the Government and the private engineering colleges, the Governments share of seats in the private colleges are 45 seats for every 100 seats, while in the previous year it was 50:50. Now, private colleges are going to surrender 7,000 seats to the Government pool and with it, the latter will enjoy an almost equivalent share with private management.
