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ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION
NEW DELHI
28th October, 2003
Guidelines for Common Entrance Test (s) for Admission to MCA Programmes in the Country

No.F. 37-3/Legal (vi)/2003.- In pursuance of the Supreme Court Judgment(s) on August 14, 2003 and October 31, 2002 and in terms of Policy Framework laid down by the Ministry of HRD in the Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Government of India vide No. F.17-18/2000.TS.I dated October 10, 2003 and in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 10 (b) and 10(o) of AICTE Act, 1987 (52 of 1987), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) hereby makes the following Guidelines on Common Entrance Test (s) for admission to MCA Programmes in the country.

  1. These Guidelines are applicable to all the Institutions / Universities conducting MCA and equivalent Programmes in the country.
  2. Admissions to the Master of Computer Applications (MCA or equivalent) programmes shall be made either through an All India MCA Common Entrance Test (AIMCET) or through State level tests from the academic year 2004-2005 onwards.
  3. AIMCET shall be for those institutions that were holding their own entrance tests earlier and admitting all their students or certain percentage of them on All India basis.
  4. States may conduct their own common entrance test(s) for admission to institutions having MCA programmes within their States or join the AIMCET. State level tests shall however be restricted to fill up seats from the students of their own states only.
  5. Management quota / seats in private unaided self financing institutions shall be filled either of the common entrance tests as above or through a common entrance test conducted through an approved Agency (including Association of all colleges of a particular type in the State). This option for filling up management seats shall be exercised by the institutions before issue of prospectus and intimated to the concerned Authority.
  6. All admissions in different approved quotas shall be made strictly on the basis of inter-se merit based on common entrance tests as above. Seat allocation shall be coordinated by the State Authority in case of State level admissions and by the Central Authority in case of admissions made on All India basis.
  7. All India MCA Common Entrance Test (AIMCET) shall be organized in a manner and as per advice of a National Advisory Board constituted by the Government
  8. National Advisory Board shall also consider cases of institutions having special and unique features for exemption from participation in common entrance test (s) on case-to-case basis, if their special and unique features cannot be accommodated through the Common Entrance Test (s).
  9. After the admission process is over, all institutions shall submit to the Authority concerned, the list of students admitted, along with rank number obtained by the student, the fees collected and all such particulars and details as may be required by the Authority.
  10. If a Technical Institution is found to be contravening any of the provisions of these Guidelines, the Council may withdraw it's approval, after making such enquiry as it may consider appropriate and after giving the Institution an opportunity of being heard.
  11. All the Institutions / Universities conducting MCA and equivalent Programmes shall intimate on or before 30th November, every year, to the concerned authority in the State and the Regional Office of AICTE, the number of seats that are to be filled up on the basis of Tests to be conducted by AIMCET, State Level Test and Association Test (if, any) for the following academic year.
  12. These Guidelines shall come into effect immediately.
  13. The council shall have the power to issue clarifications to remove any doubt that may arise in regard to implementation of these Guidelines.

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