The officials will come out with a proposal for a new admission process. It will be kept in the public domain. Students can send us a feedback."  M. Venkata Ramana Rao Technical education minister.

The state government has decided to simplify the process of admissions into the IIITs in Idupulapaya, Nuzividu and Basar.  Accordingly, it has asked the officials of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) to devise a new method which is "studentfriendly."

Admissions to the IIITs have courted controversies since they were set up in 2008-09. While in the first year the "grading on the curve method" of selection created chaos, the problem in the second year was with the "urban-rural" status of schools.

There are 6,000 seats in the three IIITs. There is no entrance test and the admissions are on the basis of merit secured in SSC exams.

In the first year, student alleged that several meritorious aspirants failed to find a place in the selection list while some with comparatively less marks made it through.

Several aspirants had moved the High Court. The officials were then forced to admit an additional 600 students (200 students in each IIIT) to accommodate the merit students who were not mentioned in the selection list.

As a result, the government has to incur an additional expenditure of about Rs 60 lakh per annum for six years as the course duration in the IIITs is six years.

In the second year, hundreds of urban schools had managed to secure "rural status" to claim admissions into the IIITs where 80 per cent of the seats are reserved for rural students.

The minister for technical education, Mr M. Venkata Ramana Rao, has asked the officials to rectify the defects in the process.

"The officials will come out with a proposal for a new admission method. It will be kept in the public domain. Students can send us a feedback. We will devise the new method based on that," Mr Rao said.