BENGALURU: After a fortnight stalemate with the private engineering colleges in
Karnataka, the government agreed to increasing fee of government quota seats in private colleges by 10 percent on Thursday.
This had delayed the counselling process for engineering programmes in colleges through CET rank as the department was unable to furnish the entire seat matrix along with the fee structure of each of the disciplines in engineering college wise to the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) that is responsible to do the counseling process.
The consensual agreement between the individual colleges and government will be signed on Friday. KEA officials told TOI that the seat matrix will be available on the website for students by Saturday evening. "The students will be able to enter options and choose seats after that but the timing has not been fixed," said officials.
Meanwhile, the medical colleges will have to pacify with eight percent hike for MBBS course only. While the private medical colleges demanded more, the discussions with government failed and the management of the colleges have now readied to sign consensual agreement with government at eight percent. The Directorate of Medical Education with KEA will start the counseling process on July 7. Seat matrix will be made available for students by Friday evening, said KEA officials.
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