CHANDIGARH: Panjab University administration has given permission for filling of vacant seats in postgraduate courses of science and engineering in 195 affiliated colleges at their own level. This comes as great relief for both students seeking admission and the college management. Students who could not clear the OCET-CET PG entrance exam held for the 2021-22 session will also get a chance to take admission.
With this, all colleges will be able to enroll in courses like MSc (including Chemistry, Physics, Biology), MCom (BE), MCom (Entrepreneur and Family Business) ME and MTech at their own level. Several PU affiliated colleges in Chandigarh and Punjab had raised the issue of vacant seats to be filled under CET at the postgraduate level with the PU administration.
The colleges had sought permission to fill all vacant seats at their level. In this case, a high-power committee was constituted on behalf of the PU vice-chancellor, on whose recommendation, PU administration has approved admission to MSc, M.Com (BE) and MTech courses with certain conditions.
PG (Science) seats are vacant in many colleges of Chandigarh, as well as in some colleges, including Abohar, Dasua and Ludhiana in Punjab.
PU has given permission to the college administration to conduct admission to postgraduate science and engineering courses, but colleges will have to follow prescribed rules for admission. First of all, waiting students will get admission in the merit list of OCET or CET-PG conducted by PU. In the second phase, students who appeared for CET entrance but did not pass will get a chance.
In the third and final stage, new students will be admitted only if there is no candidate in the CET merit list. For engineering (MTech) course, GATE score and PU CET (PG) entrance score will be preferred. Admission in MTech course will also be available in Sector-26.
