Over 75,000 students, parents participate in UGCET Seat Allocation Manthana

Aiming to streamline the admission process for professional courses, the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) organised the ‘UGCET-2025 Seat Allocation Manthana’ programme on Saturday at various government engineering colleges across the state, which received an overwhelming response.

Higher Education Minister .M.C. Sudhakar inaugurated the programme at a VTU-affiliated engineering college in Chintamani andinteracted with students and parents, answering questions raised during the session.

KEA executive director H. Prasanna participated in the event at the Government Engineering College in Hassan. Each participating college had one KEA representative and the necessary technical staff assigned. Due to the large turnout, multiple sessions were conducted to facilitate smooth participation.

In Bengaluru, the Manthana event was held at BMS, Ambedkar, and SKIT engineering colleges. At BMS college of engineering alone, more than 10,000 people attended, prompting the use of 19 rooms to conduct simultaneous sessions.

Commonly asked questions such as “How does counselling work?”, “How to choose a college?”, and “How to do option entry?” were explained through video demonstrations detailing the entire seat allocation process. Participants were also cautioned against falling prey to fraudsters promising seat allotments through dishonest means.

More than 75,000 students and parents directly benefited from this interactive programme. Mr. Prasanna informed that all the videos used during the Manthana programme will be uploaded to the KEA Vikasana YouTube channel.