B.Tech Admission Without JEE, OJEE: AICTE’s Decision Elicits Mixed Response

Bhubaneswar: The resolution of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to permit college students who haven’t appeared for the OJEE or JEE to take B.Tech admission on the idea of entry-level qualification and eligibility standards prescribed by it has generated blended response amongst college students.
While a piece of scholars imagine that the choice will assist those that failed to show up for the examination as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, some imagine that it’ll belittle the usual of the course.
“This decision will only help private colleges. It’s an unfavourable decision for us,” stated a scholar, Arvind Sethi.
Another scholar, Soumya Ranjan Das stated, “This decision will help students, who couldn’t appear in the exams, get admission without wasting a year. It will also minimize the vacancies in engineering colleges.”
Besides, educationists imagine that correct modalities must be fastened for the admission of scholars after completion of the OJEE counselling. They additionally opine that repeated revision within the admission course of will not be a superb signal.
“There is no relation between admission into B.Tech courses and Coronavirus. The decision is not in favour of people of Odisha and it must be addressed,” stated Sunil Sarangi, former director of NIT Rourkela.
Students must have Physics, Maths and Chemistry as their topics in Plus 2. If a scholar has no less than 45 per cent marks in these topics, they get admission in engineering schools.
Earlier, the Odisha Private Engineering Colleges Association (OPECA) had filed a writ petition within the Orissa High Court after the State authorities declined to increase the advantages as per the AICTE  round and the Skill Development and Technical Development Department was made a celebration within the petition.
Hearing the petition, the HC directed the State authorities ‘not to create any unnecessary obstacle/ hurdle in allowing the petitioner’s establishment to take admission of the scholars in B.Tech (Engineering) course for the present educational session’ 2020-2021.
Moreover, OPECA has additionally written to the State Skill Development and Technical Development Department stating that the transfer will lead to extra admission of scholars into the B.Tech course. “People have been hit by the COVID pandemic. Many students couldn’t even appear for the exams. The HC has also accepted our plea,” stated Binod Das, secretary of OPECA.
He additional stated that nobody ought to have any downside if eligible college students can get an opportunity to review engineering. “We have requested the State government to consider the same and implement it immediately so that students will get benefitted,” he added.