Karnataka: The Department of Higher Education has asked the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to extend the last date for admission to professional courses by January 15, 2021.
If the AICTE agrees to extend the last date for admission to professional courses, then the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) will hold another round of counselling to provide one more chance to those who cannot participate in the counselling of all these earlier rounds.
Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, Minister for Higher Education, stated, “There are requests from students to conduct one more round of counselling so that they can be given a chance to select the seats.”
“The KUPECA (Karnataka Unaided Private Education Colleges Association) has also requested to extend the date up to January 15, 2021, for admissions to the engineering and architecture courses. We have written to the AICTE in this backdrop,” he added.
According to the earlier AICTE approval, December 31, 2020, is the last day to conduct the admission process for professional courses.
However, a few students on Monday, who have got engineering seats in the UG CET mop-up round, staged protests along with their parents in front of the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), demanding to withdraw the seats and repayment of fees.
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