Many states now conduct their own exams for admission to engineering colleges within their territory. Most private and deemed universities too hold their own engineering entrance tests. The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), the technical education regulator, may soon make the JEE Main binding on the country's 4,000 engineering colleges. All the engineering colleges will be asked to see that at least 90 per cent of their students take the IIT-conducted Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) from 2018 for a standard assessment of their proficiency. In 2012, too, the human resource development ministry had proposed a single entrance test for all engineering colleges but some deemed universities protested, sinking the plan.

Source: The Telegraph January 23, 2017 21:28 UTC