Gujarat Technological University (GTU)

Gujarat Technological University (GTU) kick-started the admission process for the 1500 'displaced' students on Saturday. After the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) recently disqualified six engineering colleges under GTU, the university was forced to accommodate these students in other engineering colleges.

The admission-cum-transfer process will continue till Monday in which colleges will be allocated to almost 450 students on a daily basis. These engineering students belong to six different engineering colleges of Vadnagar, Jamnagar, Navsari, Porbandar, Amreli and Surendranagar, operating under the GTU.

They were started under Gujarat government's much hyped formula of Public Private Partnership(PPP). But, these colleges failed to maintain their teaching standards, which made both students and AICTE furious.

The state government had decided to begin the PPP engineering colleges last year and filled up the seats as it expected AICTE approval to come through.

However, AICTE realised that these seats were filled up without its approval, hence disqualified the PPP colleges one week ago.

Acting swiftly, GTU decided to re-allocate seats to these students, without any extra burden of fees. According to MN Patel, Chairman of Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC), almost 1200 students of 4th semester and 250 students of 2nd semester of six different branches will be allocated new colleges as per the GTU rules.

On Saturday 468 students of civil and electrical engineering were given seats. Students of mechanical, computer science, electronics and instrumentation and control will be allocated their seats on Sunday and Monday.

GTU exam re-scheduled
Gujarat Technological University has decided to re-schedule the exam of one subject in MBA 3rd semester. The corporate taxation and financial planning exam will now be taken on January 12.

Earlier, the exam for the subject was held on January 6. But later it was revealed that the question paper was the same as one that was given in an internal exam. Thus GTU decided to cancel the exam and re-scheduled it on January 12 from 10.30am to 1pm.