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Tripura loses quota in NITs outside state

Agartala, June 25: The Manik Sarkar government is seething over the HRD ministry’s decision to do away with quota for Tripura students outside the state in various engineering colleges, including NITs. Therefore, the entire quota of 160 seats for Tripura students is set to go. But as a consolation prize, the quota for students of the home state in NIT Agartala will still be 50 per cent of the total number of seats, that is, 456. Earlier, the total number of seats was 420 among which 210 were reserved for students from Tripura. “The matter will be discussed threadbare at a high-level meeting in Delhi tomorrow and the commissioner of the higher education department will attend the meeting and communicate our stand,” the chief minister told the state Assembly today. Sarkar said 50 per cent quota for Tripura students in the newly launched NIT Agartala cannot resolve the problems of technical education in the state. The state government would never accept the unilateral slashing of quota fo...

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 forwarde...