KCET Counselling 2024: Engineering Seat-Blocking Scam Under Scrutiny
KCET Counselling 2024: The State government is considering a probe committee for the alleged engineering seat-blocking scam, after KEA flagged 12 students who sought this year’s CET counselling despite being barred.
KCET Counselling 2024: Engineering Seat-Blocking Scam
The State government is considering forming a committee to investigate an alleged engineering seat-blocking scam. The issue came to light when 12 students, barred from this year’s CET counselling for failing to join colleges after securing seats last year, approached the KEA to participate in the counselling process.
According to reports, H. Prasanna, Executive Director of the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), is set to submit a preliminary report to the Minister, after which the department will determine the next steps in the investigation.
A preliminary investigation has uncovered that multiple students used the same IP address to select seats, and the mobile numbers provided were either fake or incorrect. Notably, these activities were limited to two engineering institutions: New Horizon College of Engineering and BMS College of Engineering.
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Engineering Seat-Blocking Scam
Despite being allotted seats in the second extended round of KCET 2024, a total of 2,348 candidates did not pay the fee or report to their respective engineering colleges. Many of these unclaimed seats were in top engineering colleges and high-demand streams like computer science, raising red flags.
The KEA issued show-cause notices to these students via email, but many of the emails bounced back. Additionally, the mobile numbers provided by the students were found to be either fake or incorrect. As a result, the KEA has now sent postal notices to their residential addresses. “We will wait seven days for a response from the students before taking further action,” stated Mr. Prasanna.
Even in COMEDK, at least 18 students used the same mobile number to select seats, prompting COMED-K authorities to contact the Admission Overseeing Committee for Professional Courses to request an inquiry into the matter.
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Q: I am not interested in the seat offered during KCET counselling. Can I still participate in further seat allotment rounds without accepting
Q: How is seat allotment done in KCET counselling?
Karnataka Examinations Authority conducts the KCET counselling in online mode. Applicants have to complete the choice filling and locking after a successful registration. Candidates have to fill preferred choices of colleges and courses at the time of choice filling of KCET counselling 2025. KEA allots seats during the counselling process as per the choices filled by the candidates. After mock allotment, candidates are given chance to change their choice preference. After seat allotment results of KCET, candidates will be provided three options of freeze float and side.
Q: What is the total number of participating institutes for KCET counselling?
There are around 250 colleges that offer admissions to engineering and architecture courses. There are both morning and evening shifts colleges. Applicants have to fill in the college and course choices at the time of KCET option entry facility. The admissions to architecture colleges will be done on the basis of NATA score 2025 while engineering admissions will be done on KCET 2025 score only. Some of the top colleges for admissions to engineering and architecture courses are given below.
PES University
Ramaiah Institute of Technology
R.V. College of Engineering
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Siddaganga Institute of Technology
KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi
M.V.J. College of Engineering
PDA College of Engineering
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Yes, you can still participate in the KCET counselling further grounds even if they are allotted seats. Applicants allotted seats can opt for float or sliding option from the login. If you want to get a seat in the same college but a different course then you can choose the slides option. However, if applicants is looking for upgradation in the college allotted then they must float option. If candidates choose freeze option after seat allotment then there is no provisions to participate in the further grounds of counseling.