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In the aftermath of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-2026) insubstantial leak fiasco, the State authorities has decided to behaviour the Common Entrance Test (CET) counselling archetypal for engineering and others related courses this year, but for the courses that are conducting counselling based connected NEET ranking.
Accordingly, counselling volition beryllium held archetypal for 8 courses, including engineering, based connected the CET rank, and counselling for medical, dental and AYUSH courses volition beryllium held aboriginal based connected the NEET rank.
In addition, it was besides decided to let candidates of each courses, including aesculapian and engineering, to upgrade up to the 3rd circular of CET counselling, successful the gathering held with the backstage nonrecreational assemblage managements, and officials of the Higher Education and Medical Education Departments, headed by Higher Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar connected Thursday.
Dr. Sudhakar told The Hindu, “In the erstwhile years, counselling was not conducted successful May oregon June and would commencement successful July. However, backstage colleges were alleging that counselling was being delayed. This time, the NEET volition beryllium held connected June 21 and the results are apt to beryllium declared by the extremity of July. Then, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) volition denote the NEET counselling schedule. It volition not beryllium imaginable to behaviour NEET and CET counselling simultaneously. In addition, thousands of students from different States volition enactment successful the COMED-K counselling.”
It has already been decided to behaviour counselling earlier for engineering and different nonrecreational courses successful Tamil Nadu and Kerala, helium added.
“Earlier, adjacent erstwhile CET and NEET counselling were conducted simultaneously, students were allowed to upgrade their courses till the 2nd round. However, it takes astatine slightest 30 to 40 days to implicit 1 circular of counselling. Therefore, we person decided to let upgradation till the 3rd circular for candidates of each courses, including medical, dental, AYUSH and engineering. For example, if a campaigner who wanted a aesculapian spot gets admitted to engineering successful a bully assemblage successful CET counselling and past gets a aesculapian spot successful NEET counselling, past this campaigner and the engineering candidates for this spot that remains vacant volition besides beryllium allowed to upgrade,” helium added.
Fee reimbursement
Further, the Minister stated that during upgradation, the full interest volition beryllium reimbursed to the students who springiness up the engineering spot and enroll successful aesculapian courses. “In addition, the colleges person besides agreed to reimburse the interest of the students who get upgraded to the engineering seats that stay vacant from the students who joined aesculapian courses,” helium explained.
“Due to the hold successful NEET, 10% of the students volition person their engineering and aesculapian seats interchanged. It was suggested that they should let escaped exit to those students. All the nonrecreational assemblage associations person unanimously agreed to this,” Dr. Sudhakar said.
Prasanna. H., Executive Director of Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), requested that the spot matrix of courses based connected CET rank, including engineering, beryllium provided soon. Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil and others participated successful the meeting.
