Chaos at KEA as students, parents seek seat cancellation
The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) faced significant crowds as students and parents sought to cancel engineering seats following a policy change. KEA has since extended deadlines and moved the cancellation process online to manage the influx and prevent seat blocking.
Why it matters
The incident highlights the administrative challenges and student anxiety surrounding competitive professional education admissions in India.
Despite allowing online cancellation of engineering and other professional courses seats, there was chaos on Thursday as hundreds of students and parents gathered at the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) office seeking seat cancellation.
The KEA allowed only an online cancellation option for those allotted engineering seats in the 2nd round of seat allotment and wished to go out of the counselling window.
To prevent seat blocking, KEA has made admission compulsory for candidates who got seats in the 2nd round of seat allotment and select Choice-1. Candidates who do not select Choice-1 but wish to participate in the third round must first cancel the seat allotted to them in the second round by paying a ₹5,000 penalty. They can then log in, pay the registration fee afresh and participate in the third round.
Some students and parents objected to paying penalty for the seat cancellation.
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