Provide bank account details by April 10 to avail fee refund: KEA issues notification
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Examination Authority has directed candidates who have not received their refund of the caution deposit/excess fees paid during the admission process to various professional courses, including medical and engineering, to furnish their bank account details through the KEA website within April 10. Executive Director of KEA, S. Ramya, issued an official notification on Monday, April 1.
According to the notification, candidates who have paid more than the prescribed fee for various courses and have subsequently canceled their seats at different stages are eligible for fee refunds as per the established rules. Refunds have already been directly transferred to the accounts of those candidates whose bank account details were accurate. However, approximately 1500 individuals have not received their refunds due to incorrect bank account details.
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A list of candidates with incorrect bank account details has been published on the authority's website. Despite this, many candidates have yet to provide their correct bank account details. Ramya explained that such candidates have been instructed to log in with their user ID and password and upload their bank account details online by April 10.
Furthermore, graduate and postgraduate candidates are also eligible to receive refunds for excess fees. For engineering courses, 579 students from 2022 and 857 students from 2023 have pending payments. They are required to pay the outstanding amounts ranging from Rs. 750 to Rs. 96,000. Additionally, a total of Rs. 3.75 crore is owed to 300 students for the year 2023 for medical degree courses. Furthermore, Rs. 59.54 lakhs must be paid to 24 students enrolled in postgraduate medical courses.
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Confident we are going to win Kerala: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed confidence in the victory of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, saying the Congress-led alliance will win more than 75 seats out of the total 140 in the state.
Tharoor, who hails from Kerala, said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls, most of which predicted a victory for the UDF that has been out of power for 10 years in the state.
"We have been on the ground. I have campaigned in 59 constituencies across 12 districts out of 14. I was very confident we are going to win.
"Everything that I have picked up from not just my party colleagues and workers but also from other observers, media and others have always convinced me that we were going to score a comfortable win of above 75 seats. And all the (exit) polls have confirmed the same thing," he told reporters here.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said he was not surprised to see the results of the exit polls but in general he was not a big fan of exit polls in India.
"Because ours is not purely a homogenous society. We have to take into account gender issue, caste issue, class issue, regional disparities. You never get a convincingly large enough sample to give an accurate poll and now there is the additional complication that we have heard about in West Bengal this year that many people are unwilling to answer the questions of the pollsters," he said.
The Congress leader said normally, it used to be below 10 per cent that people said that they would not answer.
"Even if you are a reputable exit pollster, in Bengal, one polling company has said 60 per cent of people refused to answer. So, what is the worth of a poll where 60 per cent of your respondents have not answered," he said.
Several exit polls on Wednesday predicted a comeback by the Congress-led UDF in Kerala after 10 years, dethroning the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF).
Polling for the 140-member Kerala assembly was held on April 9. Results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry, besides Kerala, will be announced on May 4.
