Date:12/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/12/stories/2006051204240300.htm

Karnataka - Hubli-Dharwad

Cancel separate CETs, says ABVP

Staff Correspondent

HUBLI: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has termed the separate Common Entrance Test being conducted by the private engineering and medical colleges of Karnataka "illegal" and urged the State Government to cancel them immediately.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday Prabhudev Kappagal, state secretary and Mahendra Kautal, assistant secretary complained that the proposed CET by Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) was against the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation) Bill, 2006.

According to the Bill, only one Common Entrance Test should be held for all the non-aided professional colleges, whether they are being run by minority societies or non-minority societies, they said.