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The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has decided to allot seats nether wide merit successful the archetypal circular of Common Entrance Test (CET-2026) counselling if determination are nary eligible candidates for the seats reserved nether the peculiar quota. This includes sports, ex-servicemen and different quotas for admittance to engineering and different nonrecreational from the upcoming world year.
The KEA has launched the CET introspection process for the world twelvemonth 2026-27 and has already allowed the submission of applications online.
Including law based reservations, seats are besides allotted nether peculiar quotas including Sports, Ex-Servicemen, Person with Disabilities (PwD), National Service Scheme (NSS), National Cadet Corps (NCC), Scouts and Guides.
However, owed to the non-availability of eligible candidates, peculiar quota seats stay unallotted successful the archetypal and 2nd rounds of CET counselling. Thus, of the full 5,106 seats disposable nether the Sports, Disabled, and Ex-Servicemen quota successful 2025-26, lone 591 seats were filled and 4,515 seats remained vacant.
Till now, the seats nether assorted quotas that remained unfilled aft the archetypal circular of spot allotment were considered for the 2nd oregon 3rd round. The remaining seats were converted into wide merit and allotted successful the stray vacancy rounds.
However, successful this case, a idiosyncratic with a debased fertile successful CET would get a spot successful a bully assemblage and a campaigner with a amended fertile would miss out.
To forestall specified cases , KEA has decided to person the seats that stay unallotted successful the archetypal circular nether peculiar quotas into wide merit seats and allocate them successful the aforesaid round.
“Every year, a batch of seats allotted nether peculiar quotas stay unfilled. After verifying the documents submitted for the CET exam, nonstop accusation is disposable astir the fig of radical who person applied for which quota seats. Therefore, aft the results are declared, it has been decided to person the remaining seats into wide merit and administer them. This volition guarantee that meritorious students get seats for their desired courses successful the colleges of their choice,” said H. Prasanna, Executive Director of KEA.
Unfilled quota seats
As per the caller rules, those seeking admittance nether the sports quota indispensable person participated successful 2 nationalist oregon planetary sports events betwixt classes 10 and 12. However, astir students bash not enactment successful sports events arsenic they absorption connected their studies successful classes 10 and 12. The fig of precocious schoolhouse and Pre-University (PU) students successful the State who person achieved occurrence successful nationalist and planetary sports is precise less.
In 2025-26, of the full 304 seats disposable nether the sports quota, lone 92 seats were filled, leaving 212 seats vacant.
Every twelvemonth during CET counselling, the seats nether the PwD quota stay vacant the most. This year, of the full 4,681 seats disposable nether this quota, 464 seats were filled, leaving 4,217 seats vacant.
Of the 121 seats disposable nether the ex-servicemen quota, 35 seats were filled, leaving 86 seats vacant.
“For the Scout and Guides, NCC and NSS quotas, candidates person to wide a abstracted introspection conducted by the Union government. But since these examinations are not conducted regularly each year, the seats reserved nether these quotas are not being filled,” said KEA sources.
