Seats returned to colleges

Eamcet officials have decided to surrender vacant seats in the convenor quota to respective engineering colleges and have asked them to conduct spot admissions on their own by issuing notifications in newspapers.
Despite conducting two rounds of counselling, about 9,017 seats remained vacant. The Eamcet officials have decided not to conduct a third round of counselling as it would delay the academic session further.
Eamcet-qualified students will now have the option to attend a special counselling session on October 5 for admission into minority colleges.
To woo students, the engineering colleges are coming out with “special packages.” While the tuition fee in the convenor quota is Rs 1,30,000 for the entire four-year B.E/B.Tech course (Rs 32,500 per annum), the colleges are offering a “special fee package” of Rs 75,000 to Rs 1 lakh for the entire course duration.
As many as 9,017 seats in engineering and pharmacy colleges in the convenor quota remained vacant even after the second phase seat allotment ended on Tuesday. However, the number of vacant seats may increase further because hundreds of students who have been allotted seats in the second phase are expected to refrain from taking admissions.
The managements of engineering colleges are wary of such “non-reporting” students.
While 1,38,617 students were allotted seats in the first phase, about 14,430 of them have not reported to the colleges to claim admissions. In the second phase, the counselling was held for 27,793 seats but only 18,776 seats were filled up.
A total of 2,42,820 have qualified in the Eamcet engineering stream. With the addition of new colleges apart from the increase in seats in the existing colleges, the seats in convenor quota went up from 1,46,155 seats in the first phase to 1,52,124 seats in the second phase.