The Ministry of Human Resource Development is implementing a Scheme of reservation of seats in Engineering/Technology/Architecture/ Pharmacy courses conducted at Degree and Diploma level technical institutions approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE); for States and Union Territories which do not have Engineering Colleges/Polytechnics or lack facilities for education in specific fields of technical education and for certain categories including foreign students.
1531 Degree level and 633 Diploma level seats have been allocated for the academic session 2004-05. Out of this 1134 Degree and 555 Diploma seats are allocated to State Governments/Union Territories, 369 Degree and 60 diploma seats for Ministry of External Affairs (Education), likewise 17 Degree and 10 Diploma seats reserved for Ministry of External Affairs (Welfare), 3 Degree and 3 Diploma seats for Indian Council for Child Welfare, 8 Degree and 5 Diploma seats have been allocated for Central Tibetian School Administration.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has clarified that there is no discretionary quota of seats to nominate students against the reserved seats. As such it is for the information of the public that no one should approach the Ministry of HRD for help in nomination or actual admission of any candidate in any of the Engineering Colleges/Polytechnics in the country.
Nominations of students against the seats reserved are made by States/UTs and other nominating agencies to whom the seats are allocated.
(Release ID :2777)