Chandigarh, April 4
Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) Rohtak, will conduct the common entrance test for admission to engineering colleges in Haryana on June 10.
Engineering colleges in the state have about 10,000 seats. According to informed sources, 15 per cent of these seats will be filled on the basis of the all-India engineering test to be conducted by the Central Board of School Education (CBSE).
In the government-owned engineering colleges in Haryana, the remaining 85 per cent of the seats will be filled on the basis of the entrance test to be conducted by the MDU for students of Haryana domicile. However, the managements of the private engineering colleges will be free to fill 15 per cent of the seats on their own. But the private managements will have to follow the merit as determined by the all-India entrance examination or the MDU entrance test.
The remaining 70 per cent seats in the private colleges will be filled on the basis of the MDU entrance test. These seats will be filled by students of Haryana domicile.
The sources say this year there will be a uniform fee structure in a college because the dual-fee structure — under which 50 per cent seats were considered to be “free seats” for which a nominal fee had to be paid and the remaining 50 per cent seats used to be “paid seats” for which the fee used to be very high.
The uniform fee structure has been introduced by the All-India Technical Education Council following the Supreme Court judgement in the T.M. Pai versus Karnataka case.
The sources say the Haryana Government is finalising a policy for admissions to the engineering colleges being run by members of the minority communities. Not more than 50 per cent of the seats in these colleges will go to students belonging to the community, members of which own the colleges.
To determine the fee structure in private engineering colleges, the Haryana Government is likely to set up a committee under the chairmanship of the Vice-Chancellor of Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar. The other members of the committee will be the Finance Secretary or his nominee; the Financial Commissioner, Technical Education; the Commissioner, Technical Education; and two experts. The committee is likely to give its report by the end of May.
