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3,000 students appear for VTU entrance test

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: About 3,000 students appeared for the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)'s entrance test on Sunday for admissions to ME and M.Tech courses for the academic year 2005-06.

The university also conducted the re-examination for the 2nd Semester Engineering Mathematics (MAT21) paper, postponed because of question paper leak on July 25.

To inquire into the question paper leak, which affected about 40,000 students in the State, the university has appointed a panel with former Director of Technical Education, B.N. Krishnamurthy, as chairman.

The other panel members are the university's academic senate member, Shivashankar; former VTU registrar, Sudhakar Naik, and the present registrar (evaluation), Sridhar, as member secretary.

The panel will look into the source of the leak and submit a preliminary report soon, the VTU Vice-Chancellor, K. Balaveera Reddy, told The Hindu.

PG course seats

There are 2,875 seats in 70 PG courses in the State in seven streams — civil, computer science and engineering, chemical, environmental, textile, electrical science and mechanical science.

As many as 44 colleges and university departments offer PG courses.

The postgraduate courses are offered by the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, attached to Bangalore University; PG departments of Kuvempu University and University of Mysore and PG departments and institutions affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University.

The entrance test was held in two sessions, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for courses offered by VTU, University BDT College of Engineering, Davangere, and UVCE at seven examination centres; the afternoon session from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for courses offered by Kuvempu and Mysore Universities.

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