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Friday, Jul 23, 2004

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Toppers skip counselling for Engineering courses

By Our Staff Reporter

Abhisekh Raja was the first student to be given the Engineering seat during the counselling that began at the Sanketika Bhavanam in Hyderabad on Thursday. -- Photo: P.V. Sivakumar

HYDERABAD, JULY 22. Nine of the 10 top rankers did not turn up for the Eamcet counselling for open category seats in the engineering stream that commenced simultaneously at the five regional centres in the State including the Sankethika Vidya Bhavan, Masab Tank, here on Thursday.

The tenth ranker, Abhishek Raja, was the first top ranker to exercise his choice at the counselling centre here and he chose Electronics and Communications Engineering at the Osmania University Engineering College. The next ranker (33), D. Suresh Babu, chose ECE in Andhra University Engineering College from Visakhapatnam counselling centre.

35 p.c. attendance

Thereafter the trend continued to be in favour of ECE and university colleges with candidates preferring university colleges of Osmania, Andhra and JNTU. Of the first 500 rankers, 80 turned up at Hyderabad centre and 185 in all the five centres registering a 35 per cent attendance compared to 42 per cent of last year, it is said.

"This only shows that most of the top rankers from the State may have opted for IITs, BITS Pilani, Ranchi, and National Institutes of Technology (NIT) through AIEEE," says the convener, Eamcet-2004 and Director, Technical Education, Anantharam, who visited the counselling centre on Thursday morning to oversee the process.

But after IITs, BITS and NITS, it is clearly the university colleges that got the top priority from the candidates who turned up for the counselling. The next preference after ECE was EEE and CSC.

The private colleges could open their account only after two hours into the counselling when a candidate P. Kodandaram, with 338 rank, chose CBIT college for ECE branch.

A brisk affair

The counselling process that commenced promptly at 9 a.m. was a smooth and brisk affair with 15 counters set up at the spacious air-conditioned hall and the candidates had ample time to list out their priorities going by the updated information on display boards that gave the seat matrix and the list of allotted seats. Four bank counters have been set up in the hall to enable the students to pay the fee and collect receipts. "It has not taken more than 15 minutes to collect the receipts after the seat allotment," said a parent expressing his satisfaction over the facilities. Two thousand top rankers were called for counselling on the first day and they were given different time slots so that the premises would not get crowded.

The Joint Director, Technical Education, P.T. Prabhakar, and other officials ensured the smooth progress of counselling.

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