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I believe you are enquiring about BTech through lateral entry, as you mentioned at present you're doing diploma in SNS Polyechnic, Mangalore then let me inform you that you can appear for DCET which is diploma common entrance test conducted by Karnataka examination authority at state level for admission into second year BTech program, the eligibility criteria is passed diploma in engineering in the relevant discipline securing 45% aggregate(5th an 6th semester combined), there is relaxation of 5% for reserved categories,

DCET is conducted for three hours in offline mode for 180 MCQs, there is no negative marking scheme, for each question one mark is awarded, and the sections are engineering paper for 100 marks, applied mathematics for 40 marks, and applied science for 40 marks, visit our page at https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/dcet to know more details regarding this,

there are various state level entrance tests conducted regarding lateral entry into BTech second year such as Haryana LEET, DTE Kerala LET, JELET for WB to name a few, and other than this there are also institutions conducting their own entrance examinations such as IPU CET, Delhi Technological University LEET, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology has All India SET exam and  KIIT University has KIITEE to name a few, so there are some of the options which you may consider appearing for after completion of diploma in engineering program.