CHENNAI: The Justice S.S. Subramani Committee is undecided about which association of colleges should conduct the common entrance test (CET) for the management quota seats in unaided engineering colleges.

The committee is to go into the legality of the claim made by one of the associations that it should go by an association's membership rather than the consent letters from individual colleges for participating in the CET conducted by any association of colleges, before passing its order.

The Committee which met here on Monday, heard representations from the Consortium of Professional, the Arts and Science College of Tamil Nadu, the All India Medical and Engineering Colleges Associations (AIMECA) and the Association of Minority Unaided Christian Institutions (AMUCI). They had sought the committee's permission to conduct the CET.

The AIMECA claimed the support of over 180 colleges and the Consortium staked claim to hold the CET saying that it had received consent letters from over 150 engineering colleges. Mr Justice Subramani told mediapersons: "The Director of Technical Education was directed to verify the correctness of the letters [given by the associations] and I have received the report... though I can't divulge the contents of the DTE's report now."

"Mr. T.D Naidu [president of the AIMECA] contended that the consent letters should not be considered and that only membership of the association should be considered [for grant of permission to conduct the CET]," he added. "We have to take legal opinion behind this claim and we hope to take a decision within a week."

On whether this would further delay admissions, he said the Committee would expedite its decision.

"We want all colleges to reopen on the same day. If at all any delay occurs, it would be only by a few days," he said.

Asked whether any admissions to management quota seats now would be legal, the Chairman said the committee had not been provided with material to show that admissions to these seats had been made. "But admissions have to be made only on the basis of the merit list prepared by us."

The issue of CET for medical and para medical colleges would be decided this week, Mr. Justice Subramani said.

The committee's member secretary and Secretary, Higher Education, K.S. Sripathy, members including Anna University's Vice-Chancellor, D. Viswanathan, Tamil Nadu Open University's Vice-Chancellor, M.S. Palanichamy, and coordinator-Director of Technical Education, Jatindranath Swain, participated in the hearing.

Later, the Consortium and the AIMECA presented to Justice Subramani, a tentative schedule for holding the CET including the dates for sale of applications and distribution of hall tickets.

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