EAMCET-2010 counselling for admissions to engineering colleges in the state is likely to be delayed by about a month, leading to a further delay in the commencement of classes for first-year engineering students.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)has recently sanctioned about 30,000 seats by permitting new engineering colleges and allowing an increase in th eintake of students in the existing colleges. This will be in addition to the existing 2.3.lakh engineering seats in 659 colleges.
According to EAMCET 2010 officials,the process of giving affliation to the new colleges and inspection of the infrastructure in the existing colleges will take a couple of months."Unless the inspection and affliation process is complete, we cannot include the new colleges inthe list for undertaking counselling which is inevitable.we are therefore compelled to postpone EAMCET counselling," said an official.
Officials of the AP State Council for Higher Education(APSCHE) said they were yet to receive th elist of newly-sanctioned colleges from the AICTE authorities.Though EAMCET officials planned to complete the counselling by the end of july, they have decided to wait till the results of revaluation and recounting are out later this month. many students applied for revalvation and recounting suspecting unfair valuation of their Intermediate answersheets.
Besides, the state government is yet to take decisions pertaining to fee hike as well as changes in the convener and management quota.Though engineering colleges are demanding
a hike in the tuition fee, officials feel that the government is unlikely to permit it since reimbursement of fee for certain group of students will be an additional burden on the state.
Source : The New Indian Express , 10th July , 2010.
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