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Sunday, Jun 06, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

ECET result released

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JUNE 5. Eight thousand four hundred thirty five candidates have qualified in the state-wide Engineering Common Entrance Test for Diploma Holders - 2004 of the 9,913, who had appeared for the test for admission into the institutions approved by the All India Council for Technical Education.

The Minister for Technical Education, P. Venkateswara Rao, released the result here on Saturday for the test conducted on May 26. Eighty five per cent of candidates and 87 per cent of women had qualified. Nine hundred eighty seven Scheduled Tribe candidates and 2,466 Scheduled Caste candidates had also qualified. Five hundred seventy six of the 584 candidates qualified for the pharmacy courses in the institutions approved by the Pharmacy Council of India.

The Commissioner for Technical Education, A. Sukumar and the Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Y. Venkatrami Reddy, said over 110 seats were available in university colleges and 6,000 seats in private colleges affiliated to the universities.

The difference between studying in university colleges and the private colleges is that in the former the student can only join in second year engineering course after his polytechnic course, on the other hand, students can straightaway join in the first year engineering course in private colleges. Officials said that the students studying in varsity colleges had the advantage of better teaching facilities, low fees and placement cells.

Prof. Reddy said that despite AICTE guidelines university colleges had the right to frame their own admission rules. Five per cent of the seats were reserved for the diploma holders in Engineering and Medicine Common Entrance Test quota. Three thousand more seats were available in the contact-cum-correspondence courses offered by the JNTU for which there was a separate admission procedure.

The fee structure for Government colleges was Rs. 8,000 and private colleges Rs. 22,000. A high-powered committee headed by the High Court judge would determine the fee structure for the current academic year, they said. Counselling for admissions was likely to be held in third week of June after the AICTE gives its guidelines on allotment of seats.

The Minister clarified that there was nothing like a `saturation point' for engineering seats as providing educational opportunities was a continuing process. EAMCET would not be scrapped, he responded to another question. The Chairman of the A.P. State Council for Higher Education, C. Subba Rao, and Higher Education Secretary, G. Sudheer, were also present.

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