Management Seats at Govt. Rates


To find an early solution to the CET imbroglio, the state government had to settle for a cut in its quota of seats this year, but students taking the CET on May 9 have a new reason to cheer: There will be more management quota seats available at government quota rates. Private colleges which want their quota of seats to be filled through the CET Cell will have to forgo fee fixed for management quota seats and agree to charge the same fee fixed for government quota seats.

 
This means, the colleges can charge only Rs 25,000 for an engineering seat this year instead of Rs 1.25 lakh they can collect if they surrender their seat with the CET Cell.

 
“Hitherto the CET Cell used to allot seats by collecting higher fee whenever private colleges surrendered their seats. This year we have decided that CET Cell will agree to allot seats only if management quota seats are made available for the same fee applicable to government quota seats,” higher education principal secretary Kaushik Kukherjee told.

 
Last year, around 20 engineering colleges surrendered over 1,000 management quota seats to the CET Cell. These seats were filled by the Cell under the higher fee category, which was applicable to management quota seats.

 
With this clause, more engineering and dental aspirants taking the CET stand to gain. After over 800 seats were left unfilled by the CET Cell last year, the government quota seats this year has been reduced to just 35%. If private dental colleges surrender their quota of seats to the CET Cell, they can collect only Rs 25,000 instead of Rs 2.3 lakh if they allot seats on their own.

 
“Usually college managements come forward to surrender only engineering and dental seats because new colleges find it difficult to attract students. Medical seats are rarely surrendered by the colleges because of the high fee,” sources said.


(TOI Dated: 19/02/2007)