Admission dates to engineering colleges postponed by one day

Updated on: Thursday, August 30, 2012

The technical education department has postponed the admission dates to engineering colleges by one day. While the placement of options was supposed to start on August 30, the state government has now postponed the same to August 31. Students with Eamcet ranks up to 15,000 will be allowed to place options on August 31 and September 1.

The decision came after 17 engineering colleges which had asked for an increase in fee from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,200 submitted their affidavits in high court on Wednesday.

The government will now have to accommodate these colleges in the counselling list with the revised fee structure, for which a GO is expected to be issued on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the state government, which faced massive criticism for not introducing online counselling for engineering colleges, is likely to amend GO 60 to enable the same. "The state government might decide to introduce online counselling for management seats in engineering colleges to prevent college managements from manipulating the Eamcet merit list.

"The order for the same is expected to be issued soon," said a source in the higher education department. The state government had on August 27 issued GO 60 directing private college managements to share the list of students taking admission in managements quota seats along with their Eamcet ranks.

"The chief minister has instructed that the necessary amendments be made for the introduction of online counselling for management seats," revealed an official.

Ironically, the decision has come at a time when engineering colleges have declared that they have already completed their management quota admissions as of August 28.

Admission dates to engineering colleges postponed by one day

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