Nearly 18,000 forms for Maharashtra Health and Technology Common Entrance Examination (MHT-CET 2011) to be held on May 12 were sold from the Government Medical College and Hospital till Thursday, the last day of sale of forms. However, about 16,000 were submitted, as per liaison officer for MHT-CET 2011 from Nagpur division Dr SM Parate.
Sources disclosed that there was fall in numbers of forms submitted by about 1000 compared to last year. Last year, 17,150 had applied from the city for single admission test for engineering, medical, pharmacy and veterinary science courses. In 2009, 16,086 candidates had applied for the exam.
"These figures are limited only for the Nagpur city. Numbers from other cities in the division like Wardha, Gondia, Bhandara, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur will be available after April 4," Dr Parate said. He, however, clarified that numbers might go up later as many students submitted forms at other centres like Mumbai, especially those in outside Maharashtra state (OMS) category.
Sources claimed that a host of engineering colleges were set to open from new academic year thus giving further competition to the existing ones that were already in the red owing to drop in students' numbers. In 2009, 83,000 seats in 397 colleges were available through MHT-CET which increased to over one lakh in 519 colleges last year. This year, the numbers of colleges, particularly of the engineering faculty, will swell further. Apart from this, some autonomous institutes like VJTI and UICT in Mumbai conduct their own entrance exams as well.
Every year, MHT-CET attracts over two lakh students and this year the number will more or less remain same. But the number of seats will be on higher side. New colleges will find it difficult to get students. Many new colleges in NU had planned to close down some branches when they failed to get even a single student last year. This year over 3.91 lakh students had actually appeared for state board HSC exam from science stream of which 43,545 were from Nagpur division.
Sources disclosed that there was fall in numbers of forms submitted by about 1000 compared to last year. Last year, 17,150 had applied from the city for single admission test for engineering, medical, pharmacy and veterinary science courses. In 2009, 16,086 candidates had applied for the exam.
"These figures are limited only for the Nagpur city. Numbers from other cities in the division like Wardha, Gondia, Bhandara, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur will be available after April 4," Dr Parate said. He, however, clarified that numbers might go up later as many students submitted forms at other centres like Mumbai, especially those in outside Maharashtra state (OMS) category.
Sources claimed that a host of engineering colleges were set to open from new academic year thus giving further competition to the existing ones that were already in the red owing to drop in students' numbers. In 2009, 83,000 seats in 397 colleges were available through MHT-CET which increased to over one lakh in 519 colleges last year. This year, the numbers of colleges, particularly of the engineering faculty, will swell further. Apart from this, some autonomous institutes like VJTI and UICT in Mumbai conduct their own entrance exams as well.
Every year, MHT-CET attracts over two lakh students and this year the number will more or less remain same. But the number of seats will be on higher side. New colleges will find it difficult to get students. Many new colleges in NU had planned to close down some branches when they failed to get even a single student last year. This year over 3.91 lakh students had actually appeared for state board HSC exam from science stream of which 43,545 were from Nagpur division.
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