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  • EAMCET to be held on May 8, 2011.

    EAMCET-2011 will be held on May 8, 2011, and like last year, it will fall on a Sunday. JNTU-Hyderabad will conduct the exam. Icet will be conducted on May 15, Ecet on May 20 and Edcet on June 4, 2011. Eamcet-2011 will be held on May 8, 2011, and like last year, it will fall on a Sunday. JNTU-Hyderabad will conduct the exam.

    The minister for higher and technical education, Mr Damodara Rajanarasimha, on Thursday released the schedule for CETs at the Secretariat. Icet will be conducted on May 15, Ecet on May 20 and Edcet on June 4, 2011. While there were fears of the government delaying the CETs this year, it has actually advanced the exams by two to three weeks.

    Andhra University has been asked to conduct Icet, Osmania University Edcet and JNTU-Hyderabad has been asked to conduct Ecet.
    The schedule for the remaining CETs will be announced shortly. “We have advanced Eamcet by 22 days this year.
    Eamcet marks will be declared within 15 days and the ranks will be announced later after taking 25 per cent weightage for Intermediate marks into consideration.
    The weightage for Inter marks in Eamcet will remain at 25 per cent and there will be no changes in conducting the Eamcet medical stream exam,” said Mr Rajanarasimha.

    The minister said the government would take necessary steps to prevent malpractices in Eamcet like last year when some students used technology like Bluetooth in the medical stream exam. “We have proposed to install jammers in the exam centres to check such malpractice. We will convene a meeting with Eamcet officials within a week to discuss steps to be taken to check malpractice,” he said.

    Source: DC

  • India Inc can set up engineering, B-schools

    NEW DELHI: In a move that will help increase lakhs of seats in engineering and management streams, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday announced a new set of norms for All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for setting up new institutions.

    Unlike the existing system where only trusts could establish technical institutions, corporate sector will now be allowed to start AICTE-approved courses if they set up separate companies as non-profit entities under section 25 of the Companies Act.

    Doing away with voluntary tuition fee waiver scheme of AICTE for 10% students, the new norm makes it mandatory for each and every institute to keep 5% seats for the economically backward sections. Considering the land crunch, it has been decided that there will be only two classifications — rural and other areas. While an institute in rural area will have to be housed in 10 acres, in other areas it could be 2.5 acres. Floor Space Index and Floor Area Ratio will be considered and engineering institutions will be allowed vertical expansion where management programmes will be allowed.

    Acknowledging the demand of many institutes to increase the intake capacity, AICTE has allowed increase in seats from 40 to 60. There is a ceiling that there would be no increase after an intake of 540 students have been removed.

    Now, institutes will also be allowed to have more than one engineering/architecture/pharmacy/management/hotel management and catering technology institutes that can be integrated into a single campus so that resources can be shared and optimized.

    The fixed deposit receipt paid by institutes to AICTE will now be converted into money deposit. All institutions completing more than one batch shall be eligible to get two courses/programmes on self-disclosure if facilities and infrastructure are available.

    Source: TimesOfIndia

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