BTech: Pbi varsity opts out of common counselling

Deepkamal Kaur

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 3

After Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjabi University, Patiala too has opted out of the common counselling for admission to B.Tech from the coming session.

This leaves only Punjab Agricultural University, Maharaja Ranjit Singh State Technical University (MRSSTU), Bathinda, and its parent varsity IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, to participate in the counselling.

Punjabi University Registrar Devinder Singh Sidhu, said, "We have written to the state government that we want to have counselling on our own and do not want to go for the common counselling. The latter leads to delay which is difficult to handle."

Guru Nanak Dev University has already been holding counselling to B.Tech independently for the past two years. Vice Chancellor Ajaib Singh Brar maintains that they would continue to do so. "We have a credit base evaluation system and cannot afford to start the academic session late. I do not think that there is any point in holding a common counselling when the number of seats available is far above the number of aspirants.

"It is a wrong decision of the bureaucrats to insist for common counselling. Universities should be allowed to hold counselling independently. If the government cannot have control over admissions in private universities, it should allow independence to state universities too," he added.

The two technical universities — PTU and MRSSTU — which are already fighting a legal battle over sharing of corpus, have now come across one another over common counselling for admission to B.Tech and other professional courses in the coming session.