Karnataka Opposes AICTE’s Decision to Raise Eligibility Limit for Engineers

The Karnataka government has objected All-India Council for Technical Education’s decision to enhance the admission eligibility limit for engineering students.

State Higher Education Minister V. S. Acharya has asked HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to defer the move to raise the minimum marks in class XII from 45 to 50% for BE aspirants. It would be a 'psychological deterrent to students', he says.

While recognizing the spirit behind the AICTE’s move, Acharya wants implementation to be put off by two years.

The letter to the HRD minister, earlier this month, says the upper revision of qualifying marks comes too late as the state has already announced dates for CET in April.

AICTE revised the qualifying marks for the four-year BE course from 45% (with physics and maths as compulsory subjects along with chemistry/biology/ biotechnology) to 50% for general-category students, and from 40% to 45% for reserved-category candidates.

AICTE's decision took about 1.56 lakh II PU science students by surprise, and could impact intake across 180-odd engineering colleges.

Karnataka has also objected to dropping computer science and electronics as optional subjects while calculating qualifying marks. From 2011, only marks in II PU chemistry, biology and biotechnology will be considering along with physics to decide BE eligibility.

"The reason for revising the qualifying norms is quality of students. There could be many students interested in becoming engineers, but not competent to take the course," former AICTE Chairman R. Natarajan says. There were no takers for nearly 20,000 seats this year.

Source: The Times of India

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Wed, 06/01/2011 - 04:33

darshan (not verified)

Karnataka Opposes AICTE’s

very very wrong decision

Sat, 05/14/2011 - 11:21

Ronald S Hoskeri (not verified)

Electronics for PUE corse

Dear sir, Recent article of not considering PUE Electronics for first year engineering courses in one of the daily news papers, clearly indicates that the AICTE has not understood the importance and the level at which the topics are dealt with, in the PU syllabus. It is far advantageous than a disadvantage for the student community. And I don't understand the logic of not mentioning the other optional subject in the combination of PCM keeping (Physic Chemistry Mathematics) constant there are other options as well which have not been mentioned. AICTE view of omitting Electronics and Computer Science in the selection criteria for engineering courses is really insane. It clearly demonstrates the ignorance of the policy makers and off-course raises doubts about the credibility of AICTE itself.

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 10:13

Ambrish Kela (not verified)

Eligibility limit for Engineers

I think moving up the limit to 50% marks is a good thing. If we want to improve the quality of our Engineers, we need to improve upon the quality of our Inputs to Engineering colleges ( i.e School Students). Govt should consider introducing a subject such as Engineering Technology in High Schools, with a lot of hands on learning/experimentation approach. This will be a step in the right direction.

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 08:51

DR BIRAJ KHOLKUMBE (not verified)

admission criteria.

It is simple and understandable by common sense that when AICTE is sanctioning 19 lakh plus engineering seats, and putting restrictions of marks for admission is contradictory. So many seats will be vacant and so many aspirants will be out of the colleges. What is the point in such actions when demand is less than supply. It is common phenomenon all over the country. AICTE should collect data of vacant seats all over the country and reconsider the decision.

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 08:23

Sanjay Goel (not verified)

Scoring even 75% in most school boards (XII) is almost a cakewalk. However, putting artificial restrictions at the entry point t higher education is meaningless. The courses and exams during higher education should be rigorous and demanding. This unfortunately is not largely happenning in India. Hence, even those who do not have an aptitude for a discipline opt for it because they know that once they enter, they have 100% chances of passing out, that too with 60% or higher score. Overall at the moment, in India, the quality of question papers and academic rigour in engineering education is very low. I have met many students from many universities who have not written a total of even 2000 lines of code in all their computer programs during entire BTech (CSE). Refer http://goelsan.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/academic-rigour-in-indian-higher-education/

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 08:16

Uday Bhave (not verified)

This is absolutely necessary and nice decision taken by AICTE. As usual politicians will oppose because many of the engg colleges are run by them. They are anyway not bothered about quality of the education, capability of the students and education system as a whole. They are interested in miniting money. the colleges which are not capable of attracting students must be closed. (And no doubt 80% of such colleges would be politician run! and so is the objection. (Not that they have any soft corner about students) By the way, nature says, those who work only can survive. So if anybody wants admission for Engg must work hard. (in fact the limit mentioned by AICTE itself is very low and should be 55%)

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