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By the same order, it was directed that all the seats available in all these Colleges excluding the number of seats reserved to be filled in by the Managements concerned in respect of the Private Colleges, shall be pooled together and in respect of the same, selections shall be made by the respective Committees by adhering to the reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes as prescribed by the Government and by interviewing candidates.

A maximum of 20 marks was fixed as interview Marks to be awarded by the Selection Committee for assessing the suitability of the candidates for the Engineering profession, having regard to the following factors, viz., (i) Aptitude, (ii) General ability and Physical fitness, (iii) Sports or N. C. C. activities or Scouting or other similar activities, (iv) Extra-Curricular activities, such as Social Service, etc. After making the selection, the Committee was empowered to allot candidates to the respective Colleges following, as far as practicable, the preferences indicated by the applicants. In view of the fact that the total of the maximum number of marks for Optional Subjects at the several qualifying examinations was different, the Committee ap-pears to have entertained some doubts as to the exact meaning of the provision that the Interview Marks should be a maximum of 20.

The Government on being addressed by the Committee to clarify the position, replied by their letter No, ED 319 TOI 57 dated the 26th June, 1960, stating that the question as to whether the total number of marks obtained by each candidate in the qualifying examination should or should not be reduced to a base of 100 while adding the marks of the interview out of 20. is entirely left to the discretion of the Selection Committee. Hence the Selection Committee assessed the merit of the applicants on the basis of the total marks secured by the students in the Optional Group in the several examinations by reducing the maximum marks to a base of 100. and marks allotted at the interview out of a maximum of 20 marks.

V. Senior Cambridge VI. Higher Secondary Examination of Coorg.

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According to the Government instructions, the interview marks in respect of this selection were to he in the order of 10 per cent of maximum marks in the Optional Subjects. Wherever such marks exceeded 300, the Committee reduced the marks secured by the student down to a base of 300. On this basis, they had a uniform maximum of 30 marks for interview.

17. 210 students were admitted to the University Engineering College, Bangalore, and 120 into each of the other two Colleges, viz., The B. M. S. College, Bangalore, and the B. D. T. College, Davangere. Out of the 120 seats available in the B. M. S. College, 20 per cent of the seats i. e, 24 in all, were left to be filled by the Management of the College, the Committee selecting candidates only for the remaining 96 seats. Likewise, 2 seats were reserved for nomination by the Donor of the B. D. T. College, Davangere. Thus, 424 students in all were selected by the Committee for admission into these three Colleges for the first year of the five years integration course, According to the Government Order, 76 seats were reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and 94 for the other Backward Classes.

60. We shall take up the second aspect for consideration first.

61. We have already briefly described the method followed by the Selection Committees. The procedure of holding interviews was one prescribed by the Government itself. The maximum number of marks for interview was also indicated by the Government. So far as the allocation of marks at interview is concerned, the principal attack has been that it has invested the Committees with enormous power unguided by any stated Principles or rules and that this circumstance itself necessarily imports inequality consequent upon possible capricious exercise of the power.