Sarkar opposes admission on merit list in NIT

Sarkar opposes admission on merit list in NIT

AGARTALA, June 19 – Tripura Chief Minister, Manik Sarkar today expressed his displeasure over the recent decision of the Union Human Resource Development ministry that the admission in the National Institute of Technology (NIT) for non-domicile students would be on the basis of all India merit instead of allocating it among different states.As per the present guideline, 50 per cent of the seats in each NIT were filled by domicile candidates and the rest were filled from different state quotas. But recently the ministry has resolved that no state quota would be entertained and admission for non domicile students would be on the basis of all India merit, Sarkar told reporters here.The decision was not acceptable because infrastructure of education was not equal in every state and in the north eastern region it was poorer than any other states of the country. Sarkar wrote a letter recently to the Union HRD Minister, Arjun Singh and forwarded a copy to the prime minister for immediate interference into the matter because the students from backward states might not be able to compete with the students coming from developed states. He said, a meeting of the central counseling board under the ministry would be held on June 21 next where the matter would be discussed. Source: assam tribune