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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Power tariffs under BESCOM to rise from May 1
Bengaluru (PTI): Power bills for consumers under the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) will go up from May 1, following an order issued by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Friday.
The hike comes after KERC allowed the BESCOM to recover a revenue deficit of Rs 2,068 crore incurred in 2024-25, from the consumers.
As a result, for every unit of electricity consumed in 2024-25, the customers will be charged an additional 56 paise, it said.
"BESCOM shall calculate, for each of the active consumers of FY2024-25 the amount to be recovered based on their actual energy consumption during FY2024-25. Such amount shall be recovered during FY 2026-27 in equal monthly instalments, to be called as 'FY25 True up Charges', commencing from the first meter reading date falling on or after 1 May 2026 and concluding with the reading date ending on 30 April 2027," the order said.
"It is further ordered that BESCOM shall maintain a separate head of account, allocated for the purpose, to record the adjustment of the said amount to ensure full recovery of the deficit," it added.
Similarly Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (CESC) has also recorded a revenue deficit of Rs 121.71 crore and can collect an additional 15 paisa per unit for consumption in 2024-25, official sources said.
