Bengaluru: The number of students eligible for admission to courses through the Common Entrance Test (CET) has decreased compared to last year. Minister for higher education MC Sudhakar attributed this to the reduced pass percentage among II pre-university science students. This year, 2,62,195 students are eligible for engineering courses, compared to over 2.7 lakh last year. Similarly, a little under 2 lakh students are eligible for BNYS (Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences), as against almost 2.2 lakh last year. In BSc (Agri), the number is down more than 20,000 to 1.9 lakh. “The reduction is because the number of students who passed II PU was less than last year. There was a difference of 9,000,” said the minister.
In exam 1, in 2024, 2,46,744 students passed in science. This year, the number was 2,31,461. Seat blocking Reacting to the seat-blocking scam of CET 2024, Sudhakar said he is yet to go through the chargesheet. “We need to go through the details of the chargesheet. In case we don’t find it satisfactory, we will take legal opinion on what can be done next,” he said. TOI had reported that the chargesheet filed by Malleswaram police states the brokers said colleges weren’t involved.
The chargesheet states that even though option entries were made, no students were admitted to these seats. While the accused used the credentials of students who excelled in other exams, they said the students were also unaware of the scam. Janivara controversy The student who didn’t
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