Date:31/05/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/05/31/stories/2007053117930300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

CET Cell begins counselling for special category candidates

Staff Reporter

Delay in delivery of photocopies of answer scripts worries II PU students

A SPECIAL OCCASION: A parent holds a disabled girl even as others wait for their turn at the Common Entrance Test Cell counselling for special category in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

BANGALORE: A total 112 candidates selected the available seats under the special category, as the Common Entrance Test (CET) counselling formally commenced at the CET Cell here on Wednesday.

In all, 163 candidates turned up to claim seats under the special category. But the Cell found that 51 students were not eligible to be under the category.

Ninety-eight engineering seats, 13 MBBS seats and one Ayurveda seat were selected by the eligible candidates. The documents of the candidates under the NCC category will be verified on Thursday. But there will be no counselling, according to CET Cell officials.

Meanwhile, several II Year Pre-University Course candidates continued to pour into the PU Education Department on Thursday because they were not able to get the photocopies of their answer scripts.

The students and their parents were worried that they would not get a chance to apply for re-evaluation since the last date to do so was May 31.

About 1,000 students and parents had gathered before the department last week, alleging irregularities in the evaluation process.

But the Pre-University Education Commissioner S.G. Hegde had denied it and pointed out that the number of re-evaluation applications were in fact, less than last year's.

However, the affected students contended that the application numbers would remain low if the photocopies for which they had paid for, reached them too late. Many students, with high scores in their previous examinations were shocked to see poor marks in the II year PU results.

They were worried about their CET ranking because the engineering ranks were calculated on the basis of the CET and the II PUC marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.