CET Counselling Process Begins At Sahyadri College Campus

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, June 10: Counselling of students who have passed the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by the Karnataka Government for admissions to professional degree courses, began here at Sahyadi College of Engineering and Management campus, Adyar on June 10.

 

Ramdas Kamath, Senior Vice President, Infosys, has formally inaugurated the much awaited CET Counselling centre at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management campus.
   

 

‘There is no doubt that the CET centre at Sahyadri College will benefit all the students passed in the CET exam from Mangalore and the nearest area, as they need not have to travel to Bangalore for counselling purpose said Ramdas Kamath. He was addressing the audience after inaugurating the CET counseling centre here.  Earlier, the students passed in CET exam had to move to Bangalore for CET counseling. They had to face tough problems like non-availability of rooms, he added.

 

 

Sahyadri College has arranged all the facilities like space for inspection, registration, and reviewing sections in a well manner for the students.  All the proceedings involved in counseling is projected on giant LCD screens and blue prints for installing server and networking is prepared in consultation with technical committee of KEA. The counselling centre has a banking counter and canteen facilities.

Sahyadri College is one of the centres for CET counselling this year. The Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) in the process of decentralizing counselling for admission to professional courses for the current year has decided to start counselling centres in Hubli, Gulbarga, Mangalore and Shimoga. This initiative will benefit students from places surrounding Mangalore.

Mangalore has the second highest number of candidates after Bangalore appearing for the CET. A counselling centre here will ease the pressure on counselling staff at the Bangalore centre besides saving the hassle of travel for the candidates and their parents to Bangalore. KEA officuals who visited the college campus, were impressed by the infrastructure.

The college campus is well connected with good public transport system, parking and other infrastructure required for such a centre. About 15,000 students from Dakshina Kannada, Chikmagalur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada districts are likely to benefit from this counselling centre for medical and engineering courses. The 10,000 sq feet area on the ground floor of Sahyadri College of Technology will be used as the counselling centre.