Bengaluru, Oct 1: The state government will set up an expert committee to check whether private universities have been admitting candidates from Karnataka to 40% of the seats, as mandated.
According to Section (9) of the Private Universities Act (Separate Act), private universities should admit at least 40% candidates from Karnataka in their degree and postgraduate courses. However, there have been complaints that the rule is not being followed.
The issue was discussed in the Karnataka Higher Education Council recently, which is headed by the Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy.
The higher education department has said that private institutions which are not following the seat reservation rules will be given strict warnings.
Besides this, the department also plans to send teams to enquire into reservation in private institutes. Between 2010 and 2017, 13 new private universities were opened in the state.
“For the first three years after a private university opens, there is no opportunity for the government to monitor closely. Between 2010 and 2014, nine universities were set up. Since they have crossed the three-year period, we have decided to monitor them closely,” a senior official in the department of higher education said.
In the council meeting, it has been decided that reservation for Karnataka candidates should be increased from 20% to 40% in Alliance University and Azim Premji University. These universities were established before the Karnataka Private Universities Act came into force. Back then, the reservation had been fixed at 20% for Karnataka candidates,” an official in the Higher Education Council said.
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