Daijiworld Media Network—Udupi (HB)

Udupi, Jan 2: The Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest against the implementation of the Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act, 2006, for professional courses from 2014-15, on Friday January 2, near Clock Tower, Udupi.

Shashank, town secretary, said, “CET is unscientific and impractical. It will be a major reason for students to dropout of professional courses.” He urged the government to immediately solve the problem which has deprived thousands of students of engineering seats.

Subrahmani, convener, said, “Counseling at Bangalore will be a great inconvenience to the students and it should be held at the district nodal centers also. Government should respond soon, otherwise, we will conduct a massive protest.”

The demerits are as follows:

· There will be no seats under the government quota in unaided colleges

· A student who gets first rank in CET would also have to invariably spend several lacs of rupees in order to get admission in a prestigious college

· CET exams will apply only to government and aided colleges

· No unaided colleges will be bound by government orders for distribution of seats and fee structure

· All the students will have to mandatorily answer COMED-K exam for admission in private colleges

· There is no mention of colleges which come under the deemed university and there is no value for CET here

· If the private institutions violate the rules, a fine of Rs 10 lac will not be a big matter

Demands are as follows:

· There should be a provision under which all poor and scholarship students should get admission in all colleges in the state

· The seat distribution system must be held under the government quota like 100 percent from government colleges, more than 85 percent from aided colleges, and 50 percent from unaided minority private university

· To conduct one COMED-K exam and to bring all procedures under a roof through centralized counseling system in all aided and unaided colleges in the state

· To fix convenient fees for every poor student under government quota seats in every college

· State government should bring out a permanent policy for poor, rural students and reservation with regarding to the fees, admission, and number of professional educational institutions and colleges

· To continue the same reservation system

· The government should initiate opening of 15 new medical colleges to fill the surplus seats

- The ABVP has demanded that the government revoke this 'drastic' decision

Hundreds of PU students from G Shankar Girl’s Government College, Udupi, Vidyoday School, and Board High School Udupi, took part in the protest.