Engg. admission: Calicut varsity sticks to its guns

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, AUG. 23. Authorities of the Calicut University have decided to stick to their stand of going ahead with its own counselling and admission procedure at the newly sanctioned engineering college on the campus, ignoring the seat allotment of the Commissionerate of Entrance Examinations in Thiruvananthapuram.

However, candidates who have been allotted seats by the counselling centres at the commissionerate will also be considered for admissions provided they appear for the interview on the specified dates announced earlier, as well as pay the requisite fees within two weeks.

The counselling to B.Tech. courses at the Institute of Engineering and Technology started on Wednesday and will conclude tomorrow, according to the schedule fixed by the university. Admissions are on to fill 210 seats in various branches including Electronics (60), Electrical (60), Information Technology (60) and Printing Technology (30).

The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. K.K.N. Kurup, told The Hindu that there had been no faux pas in the university conducting the interviews by itself for the engineering seats on its campus. ``The university has already secured a verdict from the Kerala High Court for conducting the admissions. Moreover, admissions are being conducted based on the rank list of the State Entrance Examinations,'' Dr. Kurup said.

He said the Syndicate had passed a resolution in March to start its own admission process on the lines similar to the Regional College of Engineering (REC).``Intimation was given to the State Government and a delegation also met the then Education Minister, Mr. P.J. Joseph, in March in this regard,'' he added.

Meanwhile, the university had invited applications from eligible candidates for admission to the sanctioned engineering college this academic year, he said. But the State Government had not responded. ``And it was on the eve of the counselling in Thiruvananthapuram that the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations informed the university that it cannot go ahead with its own admission procedure. But we go by the order of the High Court on August 14,'' he pointed out.

He also said that there was no fear that the counselling and admission would be in a disarray on account of the individual admissions conducted by the university. ``The counselling will have to be reshuffled when candidates seek admissions elsewhere and join other professional courses,'' he added.

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