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New norms for engg. admissions soon

By K. Ramachandran

CHENNAI FEB. 18. The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development would soon come out with detailed guidelines on engineering admissions in the country.

"We are still studying the academic aspects of the judgment and we want to come out with a framework or guidelines soon, which will not contradict any aspect of the recent Supreme Court judgment (in the minority institutions case)," the AICTE (All-India Council for Technical Education) Chairman, R. Natarajan, told The Hindu today.

Some of the issues raised in the judgment need to be studied in detail and an advisory group of the AICTE was looking into these, as also an MHRD panel. "We want to look not merely at the letter in the order, but the spirit of the order. Also, there are still about 200 cases of a similar nature about the rights of managements, pending before various courts in the country. We are looking at all these issues and hope to come out with guidelines on admissions for the entire country, hopefully, before admissions begin for the coming year," the AICTE chairman, who was here for a college function, said.

A meeting of the Secretaries of all State Governments recently decided that the admissions would be based on centralised entrance examinations (at least for those seats to be filled through centralised admission, wherever possible). The AICTE had clarified that the eligibility norm could be decided by the State Government concerned.

Mr. Natarajan said the Union HRD Ministry launched Gyandarshan 3, an exclusive TV channel, that would beam 16 hours of programmes to benefit 15 lakh students in over 1,200 engineering colleges country-wide. It would have curriculum-based programmes, produced with the help of IITs, and use the infrastructure of the Indira Gandhi National Open University. The AICTE wanted all the colleges to install downlinking facilty for viewing the technical education channel as part of their academic infrastructure.

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