<p>Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy on Tuesday said Karnataka is against a common entrance test for admission to undergraduate engineering courses as proposed by the Centre. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The Centre or All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has so far not sought Karnataka’s opinion on the proposed Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main across the country for all technical institutes from 2018, he said. The AICTE will formulate regulations making it mandatory for all technical institutions to accept JEE-Main scores for admitting students. This is planned to avoid multiple tests for getting an engineering seat. <br /><br />Rayareddy said, “The Common Entrance Test conducted by Karnataka is working well. Why the Centre or AICTE should take over the exams? In a federal system, states should have freedom to function. Anyway, the Centre has not sought the opinion of Karnataka. We will convey our opinion when sought.”<br /><br />Director of Technical Education H U Talwar said, “The Centre or AICTE has not issued any guidelines regarding the proposed common entrance exam. I have come to know about it only through the media. It is said that the new system would be implemented from the academic year 2018-19.” Tamil Nadu has already opposed the Centre’s proposal to conduct a single entrance exam for engineering courses. It has argued that the Centre can’t impose such rule on the states. <br /><br />Tamil Nadu had reportedly registered its protest at a meeting that was convened by the Human Resources Ministry and AICTE on January 11, 2017. Hence, the Centre has decided to hold another round of consultations with the states.<br /><br />Rayareddy and Talwar said they are unaware of any meeting having been held to take the opinion of the states.<br /></p>
<p>Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy on Tuesday said Karnataka is against a common entrance test for admission to undergraduate engineering courses as proposed by the Centre. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The Centre or All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has so far not sought Karnataka’s opinion on the proposed Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main across the country for all technical institutes from 2018, he said. The AICTE will formulate regulations making it mandatory for all technical institutions to accept JEE-Main scores for admitting students. This is planned to avoid multiple tests for getting an engineering seat. <br /><br />Rayareddy said, “The Common Entrance Test conducted by Karnataka is working well. Why the Centre or AICTE should take over the exams? In a federal system, states should have freedom to function. Anyway, the Centre has not sought the opinion of Karnataka. We will convey our opinion when sought.”<br /><br />Director of Technical Education H U Talwar said, “The Centre or AICTE has not issued any guidelines regarding the proposed common entrance exam. I have come to know about it only through the media. It is said that the new system would be implemented from the academic year 2018-19.” Tamil Nadu has already opposed the Centre’s proposal to conduct a single entrance exam for engineering courses. It has argued that the Centre can’t impose such rule on the states. <br /><br />Tamil Nadu had reportedly registered its protest at a meeting that was convened by the Human Resources Ministry and AICTE on January 11, 2017. Hence, the Centre has decided to hold another round of consultations with the states.<br /><br />Rayareddy and Talwar said they are unaware of any meeting having been held to take the opinion of the states.<br /></p>
