Engg, pharma admissions to begin from June 21

Updated on: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The admission process for autonomous engineering colleges and non-autonomous engineering and pharmacy colleges in the state will begin from June 21, the state directorate of technical education (DTE) announced on Tuesday.

Till last year, admissions to the six autonomous engineering colleges including College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) and Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, were conducted through an independent centralised admission process (CAPCAI) under the CoEP director.

Allotment of the 2,800-odd seats under the CAPCAI was taken up first before the focus shifted to the DTE-run centralised admission process (CAP) for the bigger group of non-autonomous engineering colleges. Students had to go through a separate procedure for CAPCAI and then the CAP.

Starting this year, there will be a single process under the DTE. Acceptance of admission forms and scrutiny of supporting documents will be conducted simultaneously for autonomous and non-autonomous engineering colleges. Separate merit lists will be released. Students will have to submit option forms through an online process. The seat allotment too will be effected online, the DTE said.

A separate notification will release details about the online submission of forms and allotment process. It will be posted on the DTE's website -- www.dte.org.in and published in the newspapers. Online registration will be mandatory for candidates applying for engineering and pharmacy CAPs.

A total of 2,54,208 students, who appeared for the physics, chemistry and mathematics (PCM) as well as the PCMB papers in the MHT-CET 2011 were declared eligible for admissions.

According to DTE sources, the figures may overlap with those released by the director of medical education and research (DMER) for the health sciences segment of the MHT-CET. Many students would have written the exams for the PCMB group to keep the choice of going for engineering or medical studies.

In the PCM segment, meant for engineering and pharmacy courses, the highest score of 199 was recorded by a Nashik student, sources in DMER said.

Qualifying for engineering admission is easier considering that there is a glut of engineering seats in the state. "All that a student is required to do is to appear for the MHT-CET to qualify for admission," coaching expert Harish Butale said.

Last year, close to 22,000 engineering seats remained vacant at the end of the admission process. A student scoring less than 50% marks in the PCM group in standard XII exam cannot qualify for admission to an engineering course even if he/she has appeared and cleared MHT-CET.

In all, 1,26,611 students from the open category and 1,30,597 from the reserved categories have been declared eligible for engineering admissions this year. A total of 37 students ended up with scores of 190 and above in the PCM segment this year.

The state has 309 engineering colleges that collectively account for a student intake of 1,14,238 seats. This includes 5,768 seats at 19 government-run, aided and university-managed engineering colleges. Unaided engineering colleges are 290 in number and account for 1,08,500 seats.

Similarly, there are 147 pharmacy colleges, which together account for a student intake of 9,170 seats. This includes 490 seats at 10 government-run and aided colleges. The remaining 8,380 seats are at 137 unaided pharmacy colleges.

Times of India

Engg, pharma admissions to begin from June 21

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