HYDERABAD: The seats in the new engineering colleges sanctioned after commencement of EAMCET counselling will not be added to the seat matrix this year, said chairman of Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education K.C. Reddy here on Monday.

The decision was taken to complete the counselling as per schedule and commence the first year engineering course in August, he said.

Counselling would be held at Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Guntur, Warangal and Kadapa.

While the total engineering colleges in the State, including new University colleges, were 269, the available seats were 92,960 as per the data available on the AICTE website.

Three new university colleges in addition to the existing eight would be open for admission this year - JNTU College of Engineering, Pulivendula (300 seats); University College of Engineering, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur (180 seats) and School of Engineering and Technology, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Vishwa Vidyalayam (240 seats).

"We expect nine new private colleges also to be sanctioned," Prof. Reddy explained.

The schedule

Stating the counselling schedule for engineering stream of students beginning on July 12, he said it would be held continuously till August 26 and the same day classes for the first year engineering course would commence.

The first spell of counselling would be from July 12 to 24 for all categories from EAMCET Rank 1 to 40,000.

For special categories (Physically Handicapped and Sports), it would be held from July 26 to 28. Counselling for all reserved category candidates would be from July 29 to August 10.

The second spell of counselling for special categories will be from August 11 to 19 and for all categories from rank 1 to rank 98,333 from August 20 to 26.

Replying to a question, Prof. Reddy said that minority status would be renewed only to those minority engineering and pharmacy colleges with 70 per cent minority admissions.

By July 9, the State Council would get the exact number of colleges with minority status, he said.

As per last year's figures, there were 38 Muslim minority colleges with 10,870 seats, 21 Christian minority colleges with 8,605 seats in the State. This year 6,073 Muslim minority students and 2,560 Christian minority students had qualified in the EAMCET.

ICET counselling

Meanwhile, ICET-2006 counselling for admission into MBA and MCA courses would be held from July 22 to 31 through new online counselling facility created in seven university centres - Hyderabad (Osmania University), Visakhapatnam (Andhra University), Tirupati (SVU), Guntur (Acharya Nagarjuna University), Anantapur (SKU), Warangal (Kakatiya University) and JNTU Hyderabad.

LAWCET-2006 counselling for admission into law colleges would commence from August 5 through the university network in six centres.

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