EAMCET 2010, ICET Counselling May Be Delayed , Ed-CET Counselling Will Start First

Officials are toying with the idea of conducting Eamcet and ICET counselling in August and start classes in September while advancing the Ed-CET counselling to the last week of this month. The delay in Eamcet counselling, which the officials planned to complete in the last week of July, is due to two factors.

First, Eamcet final ranks are delayed this year as the officials decided to wait till the results of revaluation and recounting are out, and the second is the sanction of a large number of colleges this year by the AICTE despite the State government sending signals against it. The officials expected less than 10,000 seats to be added this year, but to their shock, nearly 30,000 more seats were sanctioned by the AICTE giving permission to new colleges as well as increasing the intake in the existing institutions.

Officials say the process of giving affiliations to the new colleges and inspection of infrastructure in the existing colleges will take a longer time than expected and that will force them to shift Eamcet counselling to August. But they are not sure whether even that deadline will be sufficient as the government is yet to decide on the convener and management quota as well as the fee structure for this year.

Moreover, there is no clarity on the dynamics involved in the web counselling process. Though the officials say the web counselling will stay, they are not sure whether to conduct the verification of certificates much before the web counselling, as planned earlier, or along with the counselling process.

In fact, officials are yet to go on record on web counselling and whether they plan to infuse some changes to make the process easier for the rural students. Students and parents are demanding that mock web counselling be allowed for them to have a feel of the process so that they will have more faith in the system and allotment process.

Officials feel there are no issues with Ed.CET counselling and that can be cleared smoothly. The infrastructure is ready and pressure of B.Ed. counselling is not as much as engineering and medical counselling.

Source : c2clive