Engineering seats allotted through SMS

The much-awaited seat allotment for engineering and pharmacy courses went off smoothly with students getting information through an SMS on their mobiles about the allotted course and college.

Allotment was done on Sunday evening, based on the options given by students during the web counselling and allotment letters can be downloaded from the website http://apeamcet.nic.in.

Out of the 1,46,155 seats available in the Convenor quota 1,38,671 students were given allotments, which means 94.78 per cent seats were filled, while only 7,484 were left vacant.
Choices

According to officials, 1,60,452 candidates registered for certificate verification while 1,59,826 candidates exercised their web options.

The minimum options given were one while the maximum options given were 2,289.

Candidates now have to log onto the website, enter their hall-ticket number, registration number, date of birth and password for downloading the allotment letter as well as the fee challan. After paying the fee at any branch of Indian Bank or Andhra Bank in the State, candidates have to report to the respective colleges before September 11.

Candidates who secured admission but are not interested in taking up the course can take back their original certificates from the concerned helpline centre by September 11. No cancellation fee will be charged.

However, if they want to attend the second phase of counselling they have to submit the certificates at the helpline centres. The second phase of counselling would be conducted from September 13.

Meanwhile, the leftover seats and seats in newly allotted colleges will be included in the second phase.

Web-counselling led to many controversies in the initial stages but the allotment seems to have put an end to controversies to a large extent with several students expressing satisfaction over the process.

K. Abhishek, who secured 52,000 rank got CSE stream in JBREC. Last year, same seat was available in the college for rankers below 32,000.

Most of his friends too said that allotment was done on the expected lines. Meanwhile, some colleges where management quota seats are still vacant started sending SMSs to candidates with offers at much lesser fee. Rajeshwar Reddy, Correspondent of a college, said that some middlemen are sending the messages to lure students who might be dissatisfied with the allotted college and course.