MHRD wants national entrance exam for engg, too

One immediate impact of the National Eligibility-cumEntrance Test (Neet) for medical/ dental undergraduate and postgraduate courses has been the eradication of the role of middlemen in admission tests. Prior to (Neet) for medical/ dental undergraduate and postgraduate courses is aimed at the eradication of middlemen in admission tests. Prior to Neet, students were forced to write multiple admission tests ,which often to led to ◗ Now that the Neet rampant corruption experiment has , such as been successful, the allotment of HRD ministry is fake ranking for seriously contemplating a few candidates. introducing Once Neet a similar examination was introduced for admission the process was to engineering and streamlined architecture courses with a single admission platform per state and online allotment of seats, which did away with such manipulation.

Now that the Neet experiment has been successful, the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD) is seriously contemplating introducing a similar examination for admission to engineering and architecture courses.

The MHRD, which reportedly wants a single admission test for all technical institutes, including IITs, IIITs, and Union government- run engineering colleges from 2018-19, has asked the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to come out with an action plan.

“All the states have already upgraded their plus two syllabus to NCERT standards. Seeing how successful Neet has been, we now want such a system for engineering courses too. Once the one course-one examination concept is introduced and the examination score card is made mandatory, all the problems with the present admission system will be resolved,” says an MHRD officer.

While the fee structure could go up slightly under the new system, he believes it will end the agent-management nexus. “As the examination is conducted by a central agency, there will be no room for malpractice,” he adds.