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Monday, Apr 26, 2004

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CET for `management quota'

By J. Venkatesan

New Delhi April 25. The All India Medical and Engineering Colleges Association, with headquarters here, has decided to conduct an all-India common entrance test (AICET) for admission to medical, paramedical, dental, pharmacy, engineering and other technical courses under the ``management quota'' for 2004-2005.

Dr. T.D. Naidu, association president, told The Hindu that the idea behind over 1,000 educational institutions forming an all-India body was to ensure a coordinated approach and create a common platform for the effective growth of higher education.

He said the Supreme Court in the TMA Pai case had categorically said that private unaided self-financing institutions could conduct a common entrance test for the `management quota'. The association would conduct the CET in a ``fair and transparent manner'' in all the States and admission would be on the basis of the rank obtained in the CET. The date of the examination would be announced shortly.

The association would collect only Rs. 100 for the application form and the test, to ensure that poor and meritorious students participated in the CET. The forms would be made available through banks. He said the question papers would be kept in bank lockers and sent to the respective centres only 30 minutes before the start of the examination.

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