CET and NEET: 26,555 seats in professional courses remain unallocated in Karnataka for 2025–26
Bengaluru: Despite the ongoing admission process for the academic year 2025–26, a total of 26,555 professional course seats remain unallocated in Karnataka due to different reasons, including the option entry with emphasis on only limited colleges.
Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) announced the final results of the first round of seat allotments on August 2. Of the 1,35,954 seats available across various professional programs, including engineering, medicine, nursing, and allied health sciences, only 1,09,399 have been allotted so far, The Hindu reported.
A major chunk of the unallocated seats belongs to the B.Sc. Nursing program. Out of 31,726 seats available, only 15,186 were filled, leaving 16,540 vacant. In engineering, 5,327 seats remain unfilled out of a total of 77,140, while in medical courses, 942 out of 9,263 seats are yet to be allotted. Additionally, 1,329 seats remain unclaimed in the B.Sc. Allied Health Sciences category.
According to a KEA official, many students selected only four to five top colleges as their preferred options without verifying their ranks or the cutoff marks, hoping to secure a seat in those institutions.
“Due to minimum number of colleges being selected, thousands of students, despite having good rank in Common Entrance Test (CET), have not got a seat in any college. In the wake of such option entry with emphasis on limited colleges, when the mock allotment result was announced, about 51,935 students were not allotted a seat in any college,” The Hindu quoted the official as saying.
Seats under special category quotas, including rural, Kannada medium, and NRI quotas, have also remained largely unallocated.
KEA Executive Director H. Prasanna emphasised the importance of broadening college preferences during option entry. “Since students have given option entry to only a limited number of colleges, the number of seats remaining unallotted ranges between 35% and 40%. We have been advising students to give option entry to more colleges since the beginning, but they have not followed it. Otherwise, seats under various quotas remain unallotted due to non-availability of candidates. For example, most of the seats remaining unallotted in medical seats are NRI quota seats,” The Hindu quoted Prasanna as saying.
He added that unallotted seats from the first round would be included in the second and third rounds of option entry. Category-specific vacant seats will be converted to general merit seats in the final round to maximise seat allotment.
“For example, if there are no candidates available for rural and Kannada medium quota seats, those seats will be converted into general merit seats. SC/ST rural quota seats will be converted into SC/ST regular seats, and option entry will be given. This will fill almost all the seats,” he explained.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
