A significant number of students have not taken admission in engineering colleges despite being allotted seats in the recently concluded Eamcet counselling. Hundreds of engineering colleges were plunged into a crisis after one lakh seats went vacant in the counselling, and now those allotted seats are also not joining the respective colleges.
Seeing the poor response, the state government had already extended the deadline from September 20 to 24 for students to report to their respective colleges.But this has failed to create any impact and the response continues to be poor. Of the total 2,34,765 seats that were available in the convener quota (SW-I) in 676 colleges in the counselling, only 1,34,373 seats were filled, leaving 1,00,392 seats vacant.Of these allottees, about 15 per cent are expected to cancel their admissions. It remains to be seen whether the situation improves after the second phase of counselling, scheduled to be held from September 27 to 30.
The poor response is being attributed to students not getting seats and courses in their preferred colleges in the counselling.These students may opt for better colleges in the second phase.
Students blame the Webbased counselling process for the mess.
They contend that they were allotted seats in lower ranked colleges though they had the required merit to obtain seats in better colleges. They say for this reason they decided to cancel their seats allotted in the first phase and opt for colleges afresh in the second phase.Deadline extended from Sept. 20 to 24 Seeing the poor response, the government had extended the deadline from September 20 to 24 for students to report to their respective colleges.
Of the total 2,34,765 seats that were available in the convener quota (SW-I) in 676 colleges in the coun selling, only 1,34,373 seats were filled, leaving 1,00,392 seats vacant.The second phase of counselling is scheduled to be held from September 27 to 30.The poor response is being attributed to students not getting seats and courses in their preferred col leges.Web-based counselling blamed for the mess.