BHUBANESWAR: If the government goes ahead with its present timeline for counselling underOdisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE), students fear that several seats in government engineering colleges may remain vacant this time. The government is planning to conduct thecounselling between June 10 and June 29.
Since OJEE counselling is held before IITs, NITs and other central technical institutions under JEE (main) and JEE (advanced), many students who make it to the top-rated central institutions leave the state colleges and leave.
However, many such students may not come to the OJEE to report that they are withdrawing themselves from the OJEE counselling. "If they don't pull out from the counselling process, the seats held by them can't be filled up even if they don't take admission. We request such students to withdraw," said Biplab Prakash Mohanty, the president of BPUT Students ProtectionCouncil.
Such seats against which students take part in counselling but don't take admission in colleges are referred to as non-reporting cases. Last year, there was no such case for government colleges. "Since students had to deposit Rs 16,000 during counselling last year, those withdrawing were reporting it to the authorities to get their money back. This year, they are depositing Rs 5,000, for which many students would not take the pain to approach OJEE, said a parent of a girl, who is an engineering aspirant.
An average of around 500 students from Odisha took admission in central institutions in the previous years. If a similar trend continues, an equivalent number of seats "blocked" by them may fall vacant in government colleges.
Government authorities, however, said there would not be any such vacancies. "By the time of OJEE third round counselling takes place, the same for the NITs and IITs would already be over. Seats vacated by students joining these institutes would be passed on to the next on the merit list. Students need not be concerned," said technical education secretary Chandra Sekhar Kumar.
Since the ongoing counselling is not for 15% seats under JEE (main) quota in state colleges, the counseling for JEE (main) and vacancies would be held together, he added.
Kumar added that the government has to stick to the timeline in view of the Supreme Court order, which has directed the states to complete counseling by the end of the third week of July and start classes by the first week of August.
Since OJEE counselling is held before IITs, NITs and other central technical institutions under JEE (main) and JEE (advanced), many students who make it to the top-rated central institutions leave the state colleges and leave.
However, many such students may not come to the OJEE to report that they are withdrawing themselves from the OJEE counselling. "If they don't pull out from the counselling process, the seats held by them can't be filled up even if they don't take admission. We request such students to withdraw," said Biplab Prakash Mohanty, the president of BPUT Students ProtectionCouncil.
Such seats against which students take part in counselling but don't take admission in colleges are referred to as non-reporting cases. Last year, there was no such case for government colleges. "Since students had to deposit Rs 16,000 during counselling last year, those withdrawing were reporting it to the authorities to get their money back. This year, they are depositing Rs 5,000, for which many students would not take the pain to approach OJEE, said a parent of a girl, who is an engineering aspirant.
An average of around 500 students from Odisha took admission in central institutions in the previous years. If a similar trend continues, an equivalent number of seats "blocked" by them may fall vacant in government colleges.
Government authorities, however, said there would not be any such vacancies. "By the time of OJEE third round counselling takes place, the same for the NITs and IITs would already be over. Seats vacated by students joining these institutes would be passed on to the next on the merit list. Students need not be concerned," said technical education secretary Chandra Sekhar Kumar.
Since the ongoing counselling is not for 15% seats under JEE (main) quota in state colleges, the counseling for JEE (main) and vacancies would be held together, he added.
Kumar added that the government has to stick to the timeline in view of the Supreme Court order, which has directed the states to complete counseling by the end of the third week of July and start classes by the first week of August.
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