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Jadavpur University has decided not to admit engineering diploma students directly to the second year of BTech courses this academic session due to the delay in conducting the Joint Entrance Lateral Entrance Examination (JELET) by the WBJEE board, a senior official said on Tuesday.
JELET is conducted for admission to the second year (third semester) of four-year undergraduate program in Engineering, Technology and Pharmacy courses.
In JU, students who have passed B.Sc and obtained Diploma in Engineering are admitted to the courses if they qualify for JELET, which was not conducted in the scheduled month of October, and there is no word yet from the higher education department regarding the same.
“Since JELET has been extremely delayed this year and classes for the four-year B.Tech course have already started after first year admissions, this time we cannot admit diploma students who have qualified JELET,” a JU official said.
“We cannot delay the second year B.Tech examination for students who got admission in the first year through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) scheduled next week,” the official said.
He said the commencement of first year classes has already been delayed due to the impasse related to OBC quota and if second year admissions had to be pushed indefinitely, it would jeopardize the entire academic calendar.
Due to the impasse over OBC reservation, the WBJEE results were published in August, three months after the exam date.
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