KOCHI: Private medical and engineering college managements on Monday rejected the P.A. Mohammed Committee's proposal to consider the rank in the State Common Entrance Test as the only criterion for admitting students to various professional courses this year. The Kerala Self-financing Engineering College Managements' Association informed the committee that the admission would be conducted on the basis of the combine of the marks scored in the State entrance test and Plus Two and SSLC examinations.

The association contended that this format of admission was evolved on the basis of the recommendations of the K.T. Thomas Committee for admission to professional colleges in 2004.

T.N. move cited

C.I. Abdul Rahiman, secretary of the association, cited the Tamil Nadu Government's decision to consider the marks scored in the qualifying examination, as the only criterion for admitting students. The committee wanted to know when the association would publish the prospectus explaining the admission procedure adopted by individual managements. The association secretary replied that the managements needed time, as the fee structure had not been finalised.

The Kerala Private Medical Managements' Association informed the admission regulatory committee that it had asked Eduquity Career Technologies Private Ltd. to conduct an entrance test. The association members agreed to give 25 per cent freeship to students belonging to socially and economically backward communities.

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