Govt in a dilemma on entrance tests

Mrityunjay Ram / TNN / Nov 5, 2005, 03:54 IST

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The state govt is expecting that Centre would bring in a legislation in Parliament putting an end to this situation.

HYDERABAD: The state government is in a dilemma as whether or not to conduct entrance tests like Eamcet, Icet, and Lawcet following the Supreme Court judgement giving free hand to unaided professional colleges on admissions.
A seven-judge bench in a recent verdict said that state governments would not have any power to regulate admissions in unaided professional colleges from the next academic year.This has created confusion on the admission process.
According to a senior official in the higher education department, the state government is expecting that the Centre would bring in a legislation in Parliament putting an end to this situation. Otherwise, the state will be in a dilemma whether to hold entrance tests or not for the next academic year, he said.
The state has been conducting Eamcet for admissions to engineering, agricultural, medical, dental, veterinary and other undergraduate courses, and integrated common entrance tests for MBA and MCA admissions and Lawcet for three and five year law courses.

With the apex court verdict, the situation has become complicated. The private professional college managements association has said that it would conduct its own admission process for all un-aided professional colleges in the state.
Contacted, higher education minister P Venkateswara Rao told The Times of India that the verdict has done away with the practice of the government allocation of seats in private colleges.
"This unregulated privatised professional education will leave the education sector completely at the mercy of market forces," he said. The government can mount pressure on the Centre for a legislation or file a review petition in the apex court, he said.

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