Admission Committee for Professional courses alerts students to NRI quota flaw

Ahmedabad: The Admission Committee for Professional courses has warned students against taking admission in Non Resident Indian (NRI) category in the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT) and the Pandit Deen Dayal Pretroleum University.
The committee had posted a notice on its website stating that these two institutes are not eligible to admit students under the NRI quota.According to government, there was no provision for NRI admissions in these varsities, and only one private university in Ahmedabad had the required permission for admitting students under NRI quota.
The notice, issued in the name of member secretary G P Vadodaria, stated that it has come to the notice of ACPC that these two institutes were admitting students in NRI quota. However, this was not according to rules.
"The admissions taken in the NRI quota can be termed illegal and can be cancelled," reads the notice.
Officials in ACPC said that the management of DAIICT and PDPU were admitting 15% of their intake as NRI quota. This worked out to be 27 seats in DAIICT and 108 seats in PDPU.
Officials said the two institutes had already published the lists of students admitted in NRI quota, but after the issue came to the knowledge of ACPC, the lists were immediately removed from their official websites.
The two institutes are to take 50% students through the ACPC and remaining 50% through all-India quota. The officials said that the two institutes will now have to fill these seats through merit from the all-India quota.
Officials in the ACPC said the issue came to the knowledge of the committee after a group of students filed a complaint about the irregularity.