Students who have got admission in colleges which had low intake of students are now fearing the colleges might close down leading to an uncertain feature.
Speaking to express N.Sambaiah the uncle of the first year student N.Sudeeshna said she got admission into an engineering college in Warangal in CSE.
The total intake of students in the college in all branches was just 50.From the day of admission she is very much worried fearing the college might be closed he added .Sudeeshna is now planning to move to another college in warangal which had a better intake of students.
Sambaiah had come to Hyderabad to meet the EAMCET convener to know whether the fee reimbursement scheme was applicable to his niece if she moved to another college but officials informed the scheme will not be applicable to her. The rules say students would be allowed to move to another college if the previous one closes down and the student transferred would become eligible for fee reimbursement officials said in sudeeshna’s case the college had got 15 admissions in CSE branch but the college did not approach them to shut down. Like Sudeeshna scores of students and parents have been coming to the Technical Education Bhavan at Masab tank to know about their college status .
Officials said they will also allow students to move to college after getting a NOC from the management if the intake in one branch is very low. The students will also be eligible for fee reimbursement in this case.
After the end of EAMCET counseling about 50 engineering colleges had single digit admission of students.AP Technical colleges Managements Association chairman K.Chiranjivi Reddy said a large number of seats remained vacant due to low intake in 500 colleges out of a total of 720 engineering colleges.