PTU counselling: GNDU exempted Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service Jalandhar, May 19
The Punjab Government has issued a notification, asking Punjab Technical University (PTU) to hold centralised counselling in accordance with the process followed till last year. The PTU had earlier allowed its engineering, pharmacy and architecture colleges to hold admissions independently. The government cancelled the PTU’s notification. Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, has been exempted from the centralised counselling and asked to conduct admissions to its colleges on its own. The authorities of Punjabi University, Patiala, too are said to have written to the Secretary, Technical Education, seeking exemption from participating in the centralised counselling for its nearly 1,250 seats. If the Patiala university also gets the consent, the centralised counselling will be confined to only 104 colleges of PTU and the College of Agricultural Engineering of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. The PTU has nearly 42,000 seats in engineering colleges, of which 66 per cent are filled through centralised counselling. The approval for two new engineering colleges by PTU is also on the anvil. On opting out of PTU’s counselling, GNDU vice chancellor Ajaib Singh Brar said, “Ours is a credit-based system. The PTU’s admission process is long. The JEE result will be out on July 7 and we will be free within a few days. We are scheduled to start the new semester on July 15 and we are prepared to hold online counselling for our 1,600 seats in five regional centres.”
The Punjab Government has issued a notification, asking Punjab Technical University (PTU) to hold centralised counselling in accordance with the process followed till last year. The PTU had earlier allowed its engineering, pharmacy and architecture colleges to hold admissions independently. The government cancelled the PTU’s notification. Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, has been exempted from the centralised counselling and asked to conduct admissions to its colleges on its own. The authorities of Punjabi University, Patiala, too are said to have written to the Secretary, Technical Education, seeking exemption from participating in the centralised counselling for its nearly 1,250 seats. If the Patiala university also gets the consent, the centralised counselling will be confined to only 104 colleges of PTU and the College of Agricultural Engineering of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. The PTU has nearly 42,000 seats in engineering colleges, of which 66 per cent are filled through centralised counselling. The approval for two new engineering colleges by PTU is also on the anvil. On opting out of PTU’s counselling, GNDU vice chancellor Ajaib Singh Brar said, “Ours is a credit-based system. The PTU’s admission process is long. The JEE result will be out on July 7 and we will be free within a few days. We are scheduled to start the new semester on July 15 and we are prepared to hold online counselling for our 1,600 seats in five regional centres.”
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