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Questions and Answers regarding Casual Vacancy round Frequently asked...

Q.1. Who are eligible for Medical/Dental casual vacancy round?

Ans: All Medical/ Dental rank holders are eligible to participate in Medical / Dental casual vacancy round. Candidates who have selected any seat or not selected any seat or attended or not attended the admission round are eligible in the casual vacancy round of Medical / Dental as per their merit and schedule.

Q.2. I have selected Medical/Dental/ISMH/Engineering Seat, but not reported, weather my seat is cancelled or the date can be extended?

Ans: Those who have selected the Medical/ Dental/ ISMH/ Engineering seat in the admission round are eligible in the casual vacancy round, whether reported to the college or not. If you select another seat during casual vacancy round, the computer automatically cancels the seat already taken in the admission round and also transfer the full fee amount paid during admission round without any penalty or deduction of fees. If you will not select any seat during the casual vacancy round, the old seat will remain in your name, on that day the date of admission printed on the admission order will be extended. (Candidates need not to worry about the extension of date and seat will not be cancelled.)

Q.3. If I select a seat in casual vacancy round of Medical/ Dental, reporting or not reporting can I attend for casual vacancy Engineering/ Architecture round?

Ans: The candidates who are holding a Medical/ Dental seat and also who select Medical/ Dental seat during casual vacancy round are not eligible to participate in ISMH/ Engineering/ Architecture casual vacancy round. If such candidates wishes to participate in the ISMH/ Engineering/ Architecture casual vacancy round should invariably surrender their Medical/ Dental seat on or before their turn comes in the Medical/ Dental casual vacancy round.

Similarly, a candidate holding ISMH seat during casual vacancy round or confirms the ISMH seats selected during admission round will not be eligible to participate in Engineering/ Architecture casual vacancy round. If such candidates wishes to participate in the Engineering/ Architecture casual vacancy round should invariably surrender their ISMH seat on or before their turn comes in the ISMH casual vacancy round.

Q.4. I have participated in the Engineering admission round and not selected any seat, can I attend to the casual vacancy round of Engineering/ Architecture?

Ans: All Engineering rank holders are eligible to participate in Engineering casual vacancy round. Candidates who have selected or not selected a seat / attended or not attended during casual vacancy round are eligible in the casual vacancy round of Engineering as per their merit and schedule. And those who are holding Medical/ Dental/ ISMH seat are not eligible to participate in the casual vacancy round of engineering/ Architecture.

Q.5. I have selected a seat in admission round in Medical/ Dental/ ISMH /Engineering /Architecture and attending casual vacancy round of Medical/ Dental/ ISMH/Engineering /Architecture, if I will not select any seat and cancels the seat, how much fee amount will be deducted?

Ans: Candidate can change the college or course or place, subject to availability of the seats during his turn comes in the casual vacancy round, the seat selected during the admission round will get automatically cancelled if he/she select a new seat and will be added to the board and that seat will be offered for next eligible candidates on merit as per schedule. The fees paid by them during the admission round will be adjusted upon selection of seat, no fee amount will be deducted.

Medical/Dental:

If the candidate cancel the Medical/ Dental seat selected during the admission round, before his/her turn comes in the casual vacancy round of Medical/ Dental, 50% of the fee amount will be forfeited and the balance amount will be refunded on the same day.

If the candidate cancel the Medical/ Dental seat selected during the admission round, after his turn comes in the casual vacancy round of Medical/ Dental, 100% of the fee amount will be forfeited.

ISMH:

Similarly, If the candidate cancel the ISMH seat selected during the admission round, before his turn comes in the casual vacancy round of ISMH, 50% of the fee amount will be forfeited and the balance amount will be refunded on the same day.

If the candidate cancel the ISMH seat selected during the admission round, after his turn comes in the casual vacancy round of ISMH, 100% of the fee amount will be forfeited.

ENGG:

Similarly, If the candidate cancel the ENGG seat selected during the admission round, before his turn comes in the casual vacancy round of ENGG, 50% of the fee amount will be forfeited and the balance amount will be refunded on the same day.

If the candidate cancel the ENGG seat selected during the admission round, after his turn comes in the casual vacancy round of ENGG, 100% of the fee amount will be forfeited.

Medical seats casual vacancy round ends

The casual vacancy round for medical seats came to an end on Monday with candidates picking up all the remaining seats.

There are only 430 dental seats left now for the casual vacancy round and by the end of Tuesday all the 430 seats are likely to be filled. According to sources, of the 430 dental seats, 382 are for the general merit, 1 each for 1G, GMR and ex-defence categories. Five seats each are reserved for 1R and SCG categories. There are ten seats each for 2BR and 3BG while 12 seats for 2BG are reserved. There are three seats for the STG category. The casual vacancy round for engineering would commence from August 7 with counselling for special category candidates coming under the category of physically disabled, NCC, Sports and wards of J&K migrants. The casual vacancy round for reserved category candidates would take place from August 8 to 20 while for general merit and all reserved category candidates, the casual vacancy round would be held from Aug 22 to Sept 7.

Casual vacancy round 2008

The medical and dental casual vacancy round seat selection process for regular PU candidates will commence from July 28.

In this round cancelled, surrendered, and unfulfilled seats, along with the newly added 633 medical and 78 dental seats, will be offered for selection in the order of merit as per the schedule.

The details of the college-wise and category-wise break up of the seats available for selection will be displayed at http://kea.kar.nic.in. Monday will see the medical and dental casual vacancy round seat selection being held for special categories.

All candidates who had either attended or not attended, selected or not selected any seat, reported or not reported to the respective colleges, are eligible to participate in the casual vacancy round for Medical, Dental, ISM & H, Engineering and Architecture seats.

However, candidates holding medical / dental seats and those who select medical / dental seats in the casual vacancy round are not eligible to take part in the ISM & H Casual Vacancy Round. Medical / dental seats taken in admission round will have to be surrendered for participation in the ISM & H Casual round. The same rule applies for engineering casual vacancy round too.

Casual Vaccancy round in CET

Casual Vacancy Round postponed

Source CET CELL Date 2005-08-14 Information As the matter relating to eligibility for admission to Medical courses has been challenged before the Honble High Court of Karnataka in W. P. No. 17221/2005 c/w 17349/2005 and 17475/2005 and the matter has been heard and judgment awaited shortly, it is decided to postpone the Casual Vacancy Round seat selection process for Medical, Dental, Indian System of Medicine and Homoeopathy, Engineering and Architecture courses which was scheduled to be held between 13-08-2005 and 28-09-2005. Revised schedule of Casual Vacancy Round counseling for Medical, Dental, Indian System of Medicine and Homoeopathy, Engineering and

Counselling for medical seats from July 20

Source The Hindu Date 2005-07-18 Information The admission round seat selection process for medical, dental, Indian systems of medicine and homoeopathy courses will be held at the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell from July 20 to 25, including Sunday. This follows the Supreme Courts approval of the joint memorandum on seat-sharing and fee structure filed by the State Government and private professional colleges. The ongoing seat selection process for engineering and technology courses (up to rank 40,000) will continue till July 16. For the remaining engineering rank holders from 40,001 to the last rank, the process will be

Counselling for medical seats from July 20

Source The Hindu Date 2005-07-18 Information The admission round seat selection process for medical, dental, Indian systems of medicine and homoeopathy courses will be held at the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell from July 20 to 25, including Sunday. This follows the Supreme Courts approval of the joint memorandum on seat-sharing and fee structure filed by the State Government and private professional colleges. The ongoing seat selection process for engineering and technology courses (up to rank 40,000) will continue till July 16. For the remaining engineering rank holders from 40,001 to the last rank, the process will be

CET crisis: Review plea in SC, appeal in HC likely

Source Deccan Herald Date 2005-08-19 Information The State Cabinet on Friday is likely to discuss its next move following two crucial judgements by the High Court and Supreme Court regarding admissions to professional colleges. A decision whether to a file review petition in the Supreme Court against the seven-judge bench that ruled against government fixing any quotas for admission in professional colleges will be taken by the Cabinet tomorrow, Chief Minister Dharam Singh told reporters. According to sources, the government is likely to file an appeal before a division bench of the Karnataka High Court challenging Wednesdays single

Computer, Electronics 2008 -trend still on:- you vote!

The demand for BE in Computer Science and Electronics among students continues.You can also vote in my blog as which course according to you is in most demand.The voting trend in blog.So keep voting.

This preference was obvious at the Karnataka Examination Authority premises on Thursday. On the fourth day of the counselling for general category, students were found opting for computer science followed by electronics and communication, telecommunication and biotechnology. There are about 25 engineering courses to choose from 141 colleges for the CET engineering rank holders.

Consultation with the peers, parents’ suggestion and continuous assessment about current courses and top colleges have influenced the students with the preset notion to choose BE courses. A few top engineering colleges, like MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology drew on zero seats in the BE Computer Science of the General Merit Category. More than 1,500 seats were selected by students based on college wise and course wise.

Confident, Ramya Shenoy, student from Mysore said, “I had a list of preferred courses based on the college and its performance. Keeping in mind factors like career prospects, placements and the institution faculty I had my choices of courses like Electronics and Communication, Computer Science and Electrical followed by Biotechnology”.

On the contrary, courses like aeronautical engineering, silk technology, construction management and other courses have not been selected yet by students. KEA official say that selection of courses is based on the interest of students and peer pressure. “Some courses are selected during the fag end of the counselling session. Today just two seats in BE aeronautical engineering have been selected, however the popular courses like computer science in top colleges in the General Merit category have been completely selected” said the KEA official.

The Department of Higher Education, as promised has hosted the list of engineering colleges based on the VTU results of past five years which given a clearer picture for students in choosing BE course.

source:-DH News Service, Bangalore

What is ‘Creamy layer’ ?

After defaulting on paying up subsidies towards fees of SC/ST students studying expensive professional courses, the government has done away with part of the subsidies this year. It has brought in a ‘creamy layer’ policy.

Till last year, SC/ST students used to get their full fees waived for medical, dental and engineering courses, thanks to the Union government’s post-matric scholarships.

This year, while SC/ST students do not have to pay fees for seats chosen in government or aided colleges, they have to pay some of the fees if they choose seats in unaided colleges in the ‘higher fee’ category of seats. Fees continue to be waived for seats in ‘concessional fee’ category in unaided colleges.

SC/ST students who opt for a ‘higher fee’ seat and with an annual family income of over Rs 1 lakh have to pay the entire fee. Those whose parents earn less than Rs 1 lakh a year have to pay 40 per cent of the fees -- that is, Rs 22,590 (they will be eligible for 60 per cent subsidies).

Candidates must bring DD for the fee amount in favour of ‘The Special Officer, CET Cell, Bangalore,’ payable at Bangalore, while going for seat selection. There are no facilities at CET Cell to issue DDs.

source:-DH News Service Bangalore

CET 2008: Engg seat matrix

A total no.of 41,118 engineering seats will be available this year of which 27,147 seats will be allotted from the CET Cell, as per the provisional engineering seat matrix which was announced in Bangalore.

The quota has been arrived on the basis of a 65:35 seat sharing arrangement between the government and private managements. As many as 13,971 seats will come under the management quota.

As many as 14,984 seats have been included in the “free seat” category. Under this category, students who choose seats in government and aided colleges (4,104 seats) will have to pay Rs 10,090 as fees, while those who choose seats in private unaided colleges (10,880 seats) will have to pay Rs 17,590. As many as 12,163 seats will come under “higher fee category” for which the fee is Rs 52,590.

The All India Council of Technical Education has reduced 2,500 seats in 46 colleges in the state this year citing shortage of faculty in the colleges. The seat selection process for engineering courses through the CET.

source:- DH News Service Bangalore

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