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Justice Mohan to be chairman of AICET committee

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI, MAY 4. Justice S. Mohan, retired Supreme Court Judge, will be the Chairman of the committee to conduct an All-India Common Entrance Test (AICET) for admission to medical, para-medical, dental, pharmacy, engineering and other technical courses under the `management quota' for 2004-2005.

Talking to The Hindu , he said over 1,000 educational institutions had formed the All-India Medical and Engineering Colleges Association which would ensure a coordinated approach and create a common platform for the effective growth of higher education in the country.

He said the Supreme Court in the TMA Pai case had categorically stated that private unaided self-financing institutions could conduct a common entrance test for the "management quota." A committee had been formed for the smooth conduct of the AICET.

The other committee members are: Cardiologist, K.M. Cherian; the former Dean, Thanjavur Medical College, V. Munirathnam; the Director, I.E.M. West Bengal, Kolkata, Satyajit Chakrabarti; S. Pritam Singh Bhogal of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ramgarhia; G.V.K. Sinha of the Lingayat Institute of Management and Technology, New Delhi, and the Association president, T.D. Naidu.

Mr. Justice Mohan said that as the Chairman of the Committee, he would ensure that the AICET was conducted in a fair and transparent manner in all the States and admission done only on the basis of merit as per the rank obtained in the CET. All the infrastructural facilities for conducting the CET had been put in place and the examination would be held on July 10 and 11.

He said that to ensure that poor and meritorious students participated in the CET, only Rs. 100 would be collected for the application form and for the test. The forms would be made available through banks. Question papers would be kept in bank lockers to avoid leakage and sent to the respective centres only 30 minutes before the start of the examination. The results of the AICET would be put on the website, www.aimeca.org, according to the rank obtained by the students, who would be admitted in colleges of their choice in any State. He said the application forms could also be downloaded from the website.

According to Dr. Naidu, managements could admit students for the lapsed seats under the "free seats" category. However, only those students who wrote the AICET could be considered for such admission under the management quota, he said.

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