About 10,000 youth appeared in the entrance test for graduate courses in agriculture science, veterinary science, home science and fishery sciences at the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology on the weekend. The admission coordinator of the University HS Chawla said that the entrance examination was conducted at nine centres in Pantnagar, five centres of Dehradun, four of Almora, two of Pithoragarh and one each centre of Chamba and Rishikesh.
He said that a total of 10,229 students were enrolled for the examination for entrance in 130 seats of Agriculture, 62 of veterinary, 70 of Home Science, 20 of Fishery science and 24 seats of Food technology. 842 candidates were found absent in the examination which was conducted at 23 centres in six cities.