EAMCET Engineering admission: 50% Inter marks mandatory

Starting this year, students will need a minimum of 50 per cent marks in their intermediate examination to get admission in engineering colleges. S S Mantha, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), on Saturday communicated this to officials of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). The chairman was in the university to attend a workshop with engineering college managements.
Mantha communicated to the university authorities that a 50 per cent score in group subjects (mathematics, physics and chemistry for engineering) will be made mandatory from Eamcet 2011. Students belonging to SC/ST communities need to score 45 per cent marks in group subjects to take admission in engineering colleges.
The state government so far kept a minimum score of 35 per cent in intermediate for admissions in engineering colleges. Around 40,000 students who got just 35 per cent marks in the qualifying examination had taken admission in engineering colleges in the previous academic year.
According to Mantha, AICTE will not allow the state to continue with 35 per cent rule as the “quality of technical education would come down further’’. The state government had written to AICTE earlier this month asking for an exemption for the state’s students from the 50 per cent rule. Meanwhile, addressing the workshop, the AICTE chairman said that new engineering colleges that will be allowed to take admissions for the coming academic year will be sanctioned by May 31, unlike in the previous years when AICTE approvals were given even till August.

State denies Second Shift permission to engineering colleges

The State government stuck to its stand and rejected second shift in all the engineering colleges that got permission from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The college managements received letters on Monday stating that permission cannot be given to them for failing to provide facilities and not meeting the requirements on staff-student ratio, qualifications of principals and other infrastructure issues.

This means, more than 85-colleges that were hoping to offer B.Tech. courses in the second shift will not be able to do so this year, at least.
The colleges had earlier gone to the court stating that the government was not permitting them despite AICTE permission. The court said that the government can not blindly deny permission when they fulfilled all the norms.

Based on court directions, the three JNT Universities sent a report to the government giving their opinion on the facilities in the colleges.

Officials who have gone into preparing the report say that they found some glaring mistakes in the permissions given by the AICTE itself apart from lack of infrastructure and other facilities.
A senior official said that second shift was supposed to be permitted in colleges where at least one batch had passed out so far.

But the AICTE gave permission to colleges that did not fulfil this norm.
Moreover, it has also given permission to streams that don't exist in the first shift. For example, a college that got permission for Mechanical course in the second shift doesn't actually offer the course in the first shift itself. Colleges have to appoint a Dean for the second shift but even this norm was not fulfilled.