Bangalore: The Common Entrance Test (CET) cell in Karnataka on August 14 suspended the process of counselling for selection of students for admission into professional courses soon after the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on seat sharing, CET sources said.

The CET cell, which was conducting counselling for allotment of seats in engineering courses, decided to cancel the counselling, sources said and declined to elaborate.

The Supreme Court in its verdict has fixed 50:50 quota seat-sharing for government and private unaided colleges.

Karnataka government has drawn up seat matrix for sharing seats with the government having say in filling up 75 per cent of seats out of the total intake and leaving 25 per cent of seats to management, a decision which the private colleges had challenged before the apex court.

The fate of students who secured seats in medical colleges hangs in balance now, as counselling for allotment of seats under merit and payment category has already been completed.

A section of the private medical, dental and engineering colleges who formed a consortium called "COMED-K" had rejected the students selected by CET and declared they would await the Supreme Court judgement on their petition challenging the seat-sharing quota fixed by the government.

The government had threatened to cancel the affiliations of such colleges which deny admission to students allotted to them by CET.

PTI