Engineering Counseling Begins

Clearing the air of uncertainty over the counselling for admission into engineering colleges, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari on Thursday announced that the exercising of options for counselling would start from 5 pm on Friday and continue till July 21. Announcing the schedule, Srihari said, “In the light of High Court’s interim orders that counselling process can be started, the schedule was decided to avoid any inconvenience for students.

We want to complete counselling within the stipulated time frame as per the guidelines of Supreme Court by July 31. However, the admissions are tentative and subject to the outcome of the inspection report as per the orders of High Court.” It may be recalled that a division bench of High Court on Wednesday, while allowing the commencement of counselling, also instructed the constitution of a three-member committee comprising AICTE and JNTUH officials for conducting another round of inspections of the petitioner engineering colleges.

The inspection report would have to be produced before the High Court by July 31. Srihari said that inspection would be done in 121 petitioner engineering colleges and counselling would go on as per the earlier announced schedule. He asked students to keep in mind that there would be three categories of engineering colleges. The first category comprises the petitioner colleges, second category colleges are those which were cleared for conducting the counselling and hence, did not approach High Court and third category includes colleges that wanted inspections to their courses, which were not allowed previously, as they were not given permission by JNTUH during the previous round of inspection.

He said that the online web options would be updated with the three categories of engineering colleges for the convenience of students. The JNTU-H had earlier allowed 220 engineering colleges for counseling, among which some colleges were denied few courses. Similarly, it has denied permission to 25 colleges. About 121 engineering colleges approached High Court either for disaffiliation of the courses or for the complete denial of affiliation.

Counselling schedule
July 17 to July 21-exercise of options
July 22-Change of options
July 23-Data processing
July 24-Allotment of seats
July 25 to July 27-Reporting of candidates to the respective colleges
Final Phase Counselling
July 29-Document verification
July 29 to July 30-Exercise of options
July 31-Seat allotments
August 1-Reporting to the respective colleges

Categories of Colleges in Counselling
1. Colleges that have approached High Court
2. Colleges that have not approached High Court
3. Colleges which would like to approach High Court for inspection