would have led to holding up of admissions

The JEE Mains had been put off between September 1 and 6 and JEE Advanced on September 27. This would have led to holding up of admissions to BTech in Punjab colleges till October. All private universities of the state had already been taking admissions since July and had enrolled thousands of students, whereas colleges affiliated with state-run universities could not conduct admissions. This would have led to a major downfall in admissions in engineering colleges of the state, which had already been suffering huge losses on account of less admissions in the past few years. A committee comprising Vice-Chancellors of IKGPTU, Kapurthala, and MRSPTU, Bathinda, had been formed by the Technical Education Department to take a final call on the matter. The VCs recommended taking admissions on the basis of Class XII merit. The dept officials accepted the recommendations and issued a notification.