BE admissions from July 16

Hyderabad, July 7: The notification for Eamcet engineering admissions was issued on Monday. The first phase of admissions would be conducted from July 16 to August 7. During this period, Eamcet rankers from 1 to 54,000 would be called for counselling. Besides, online counselling would be conducted simultaneously at eight centres across the state. The centres are located in Hyderabad, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Kadapa, Tirupati, Secunderabad and Vijayawada. Counselling for reserved categories such as NCC, CAP and PHC will be held between August 9 and 14.
“On the first day of counselling, we will call only 1,000 candidates. The number will be gradually be raised to 4,000 on the consecutive days,” said Mr K.C. Reddy, chairman of the AP State Council of Higher Education. He added that for the first time, admissions will be conducted according to GO 550. Under this order, students from reserved categories can claim seats in both the open and reserved category at the same time.Later, if a reserved candidate opts for a seat under the reserve quota, the seat which falls vacant in the open category would be filled up by a student belonging to the same reservation quota, he said.
Mr Reddy informed that the number of new engineering colleges approved by AICTE for this year admissions stands at 124. “Candidates who attend counselling would be given a scratch card. With this, students need not come to counselling centres for the second phase if they want to change the college and the course.” “Instead, they can avail the facility online with the help of the password provided on the scratch card and choose a course accordingly.” Mr Reddy said. He added that nearly 220 colleges have come forward to provide admissions to economically backward students under the “fee waiver scheme.”
(Courtesy: DC)