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  • AP to urge AICTE to cancel second shift.

    Senior officials from the higher education department will meet the chairman of All India Council for Technical Education, Prof. S.S. Mantha, and other officials in New Delhi on Monday to check the feasibility of setting of more engineering colleges in the state ahead of the new academic year.

    The principal secretary of higher education, Mr C.R. Biswal, the commissioner for technical education, Mr Laxminarayana and the vice-chancellor of JNTU-Hyderabad, Prof. D.N. Reddy, will submit a letter on behalf of the state government urging the AICTE not to grant second shift and additional sections in the existing engineering colleges and discourage the setting up of new colleges in the state this year.

    The team will submit statistics on availability of engineering seats and actual demand to prove the “gross mismatch” between the two. The delegation will inform the AICTE that the state already has 707 engineering colleges with an intake of about three lakh seats and last year nearly one lakh seats went vacant due to poor demand. Several engineering colleges located in the districts and semi-urban areas are heading for closure while colleges located in Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam have been seeking additional sections based on “locational advantage”.

    The team will also request the AICTE to fix a cut-off date for approvals and renewals this year to avoid delay in admissions process.

    Source : DC

  • Apex court nod for common MBBS entrance test

    New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for implementing the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) notification providing for a common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses leading to the award of MBBS degrees.

    An apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik, while giving the go ahead to the MCI, said that anyone aggrieved by the notification can challenge it in court.

    “If you (MCI) think you are independent and don’t require any approval from the centre, then you can go ahead with its implementation and if you think you need approval from the government, then go to it (government),” the bench said.

    The court further told the MCI that if it has already obtained the approval of the health ministry for issuing the notification providing for common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses, then it could go ahead with its implementation.

    The MCI on October 21, 2010 issued a notification providing for common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses all over the country. However, this notification was kept in abeyance in the face of stiff opposition by the Tamil Nadu government.

    The state government subsequently obtained a stay against the notification from the Madras High Court.

    The apex court said that it could not continue hearing the matter. It said it will not say anything in the matter and if the apex body regulating medical education in the country thinks that it can implement its notification, then it can go ahead and do so.

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