Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Jun 12: The CET on-line counselling process, which has been extended to Hubli and Gulbarga in addition to Bangalore this year, will be extended to Mangalore too with effect from next year, said Aravind Limbavali, higher education minister, who inaugurated the CET Counselling at Bangalore 40 minutes behind schedule. "The decision to decentralize the process has helped thousands of poor students. So we want to decentralize it further," he declared.

Limbavali mulled the issue of holding a common seat selection process for degree admissions too through counselling process, to nip the menace of donations and irrational seat allotments by college managements. Once this process is started, the PUC marks will be the basis for selection, he revealed. At present, students are made to run from college to college, filling in multiple applications. If common counselling is introduced, all of these will be things of the past, he felt.