New Delhi February 11: Now it's time to single entrance test for who seeks admission into engineering.
According to govt officials, Admission to all engineering colleges in the country will be done through a single entrance examination from next year, the central GOVT said on Friday.
A single test for engineering, as well as architecture courses, will be on lines of the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET).
However, students seeking admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will have to clear the JEE-Advanced after taking the engineering entrance exam.
The human resource development ministry cleared a proposal by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the country’s top body which frames rules and regulations for engineering and technical institutes.
"AICTE is advised to ensure that the testing process is standardized keeping in view the linguistic diversity of the country. The test shall also be conducted multiple times every year," the HRD ministry said.
The ministry has asked the council to issue suitable regulations under the AICTE Act.
"The aim is to make the process more transparent, standardized, and free of corruption and commercialisation," a government official said,
This entrance examination is said to be the brainchild of HRD minister Prakash Javadekar.
India has more than 3,300 approved engineering colleges affiliated to universities, with an annual intake of an estimated 1.6 million students. But only about half of the seats are filled.