70% seats reserved for students from Chandrapur and Gadchiroli for Chandrapur Government College of Engineering

TOI NAGPUR: Nagpur University's biggest loss is set to be a gain for students of Gadchiroli. The Government College of Engineering (GCoE) in Chandrapur, hitherto affiliated to NU but being transferred to GU, will have 70% seats reserved for students from Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. "The remaining 30% seats would be filled up through rest of Maharashtra quota where NU candidates can also take admission," joint director for technical education Gulab Thakre said.

The NU officials were so far ruing the loss of GCoE having 340 seats to GU as it doesn't have another government engineering college in its jurisdiction. This loss is more severe considering the fact that earlier the 70% quota was spread over candidates from six districts under NU while now it will be limited for students from just two districts.

About 30,339 students in NU's jurisdiction qualified for the engineering courses through last MHT-CET while 7,504 made it from GU. A total of 37,843 qualified from the area under joint director's jurisdiction. Thakre informed that both NU and GU has combined capacity of 23,102 seats in 58 engineering colleges. "All seats of government colleges would be available under CAP while in unaided institutions 80% seats would be available. In minority colleges like Ramdeobaba, 51% seats would be filled up from that quota and 20% from management quota. Additionally, there will be 15% quota for AIEEE candidates," he said.

Centralized admission process to have only 3 rounds

With a view to start first year engineering classes from August 1 as per AICTE's guidelines, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has expedited the centralized admission process (CAP) by limiting it to three rounds from earlier four. TOI on December 30 last year had reported about this move citing technical education director Subhash Mahajan. It came after AICTE's diktat in wake of several complaints from the students that they didn't get enough time for attending classes or exam preparation. "It would immensely benefit both colleges and students as NU too has started semester pattern from this session," Thakre told reporters.

Till last year, the students used to get 20 options and they were admitted in first nine colleges in first round. In second round, they get 45 options of which they used to take admission in 15 of their choices. "From this year, 100 options would be offered in first and second rounds while there will be no third round. If s/he got admission in first three choices, they have to compulsorily take it in first round while in second, they have to take admission in any of the colleges. The last round will be of counselling," the joint director informed.

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