KEA plans to allot govt quota CET seats in professional courses to curb seat blocking

BENGALURU: With the aim of curbing the seat blocking scam in the allocation of government merit seats to UGCET candidates, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has decided to allot the seats itself.

With this, the KEA aims to stop colleges from filling seats on their own and the agency will oversee everything right from seat allocation to documentation. It has also come up with new rules for CET seat allocation and once it secures the government’s nod, the KEA will enforce them from this year itself.

Last year, a KEA staffer himself was arrested in the seat blocking scam. Now, as per the new rules, the KEA itself will allot merit seats under government quota for professional courses in private colleges after the seat-sharing agreement. Unfilled seats after the third round of counselling will go back to the institutions.

Some private colleges would deliberately block government quota seats to ensure that they are not filled and these seats would be sold under management quota. Now, the KEA plans to check seat blocking and will allot the seats to the eligible candidates.