Punjabi University opts out of common BTech counselling

Deepkamal Kaur

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 28

It’s official now. Punjabi University, Patiala, will not participate in the common counselling for its engineering seats. It will instead go for its own admission process like Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, which has been holding its independent counselling for BTech.

A notification, issued by the Department of Technical Education and Industrial Training for BTech admission, has the names of only three participating universities — IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala (which has been authorised to conduct counselling), Maharaja Ranjit Singh State Technical University, Bathinda, and Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.

The Punjabi University authorities had written to the state government that they do not want to go for common counselling as it led to delay in the completion of the admission process.

So this time, students seeking admission in Punjab colleges will have to fill three forms and follow three separate counselling schedules.

In the notification issued by MP Singh, Principal Secretary, Technical Education, IKG-PTU has been asked to conduct counselling in two rounds which are to be completed before July 10.

The students taking admission via counselling will be able to avail seats till July 15. After that, all seats will be passed on to the colleges as management quota seats. The final date for admission as per Supreme Court directions will be August 15, the notification reads.

After bifurcation, IKG-PTU has got 66 colleges of engineering and four of architecture. The Bathinda University has got a share of 41 engineering colleges and three of architecture.