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Students who studied Agriculture, Biology, and Chemistry successful higher secondary classes, mostly from bluish States, person complained to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) that implicit 27 universities - some Central and State - are denying them admittance to the B.Sc. Agriculture course.
Supporting the students, respective MLAs and parents person written to the authorities, pointing retired that immoderate universities person made it mandatory that lone those who studied Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics oregon Physics, Chemistry, and Biology are eligible for admittance to B.Sc. Agriculture. Addressing the complaints, ICAR Director-General Mangi Lal Jat convened a virtual gathering with Vice-Chancellors, pursuing which immoderate universities decided to reappraisal the norms.
The ICAR, successful relation with the National Testing Agency, facilitates admissions to astir 60 cultivation universities and institutions done the Common University Entrance Test (CUET). ICAR holds astir a 20% quota successful institutions that admit students based connected CUET results. The petitioners told ICAR Director-General Dr. Jat and UGC Chairman Vineet Joshi that the admittance guidelines, successful spot since past world year, had been implemented contempt concerns raised by agriculture students, parents, and nationalist representatives.
Rajasthan MLAs Ravindra Singh Bhati and Manish Yadav, successful abstracted letters to Dr. Jat, said students keen connected studying agriculture were being denied admittance contempt clearing CUET. They urged the authorities to intervene, informing that astir 10,000 students from Rajasthan unsocial would beryllium affected by the admittance criteria adopted by immoderate universities.
Speaking to The Hindu, Dr. Jat said galore State cultivation universities were already admitting agriculture students, and 7 much institutions had informed him connected Saturday that they would enrol students with agriculture astatine schoolhouse level successful their B.Sc. Agriculture courses, based connected entranceway introspection results.
“We [the ICAR] are conscionable a facilitator. The universities are nether the State governments, and acquisition is simply a State subject. However, it is not a bully happening that students who studied agriculture successful schools are not capable to enrol successful B.Sc. agriculture courses. The Deputy Director-General (Education) of ICAR wrote to each universities earlier this week astir the issue. I besides convened a virtual gathering with much than 300 Vice-Chancellors and directors of ICAR institutions connected the matter. They person made immoderate suggestions. Some of the universities said they person to consult their respective boards of absorption earlier taking a decision. As indicated, 7 person already positively responded, which is simply a important development. I americium doing my champion successful the larger involvement of agriculture and agriculture students,” Dr. Jat said.
