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Counselling: help desks to function till Friday

Staff Reporter

Facilitation centres will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

KOZHIKODE: As many as 100 candidates in the district and places in Malappuram and Wayanad districts utilised the two facilitation centres and one help desk in the district on Wednesday, as the Government extended the Internet-based counselling programme for allotment of seats to engineering\medical colleges in the State till 10 p.m. on Friday.

As per the earlier schedule, counselling was to end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

However, students and parents thronged the Government Engineering College (GEC), West Hill, Kozhikode, which was the nerve centre of activities acting as facilitation centre, on Wednesday as well.

E.S. Shajahan, assistant professor, GEC, who is in-charge of the counselling process at the college, said that more students were enquiring about the situation in view of the Kerala High Court interim order on Tuesday. Five assistant professors were deputed to guide the students on these days. Five terminals had been provided at the college with 256 kbps connectivity. Prof. Shajahan said the facilitation centre would function from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday. The college may function till 10 p.m. on Friday, following a Government directive expected in this regard. As many as 1300 students submitted their options between Tuesday and Wednesday. More than 35 students came up for registration at the College of Applied Sciences, under the IHRD, which functioned as the help desk on Wednesday. About 250 candidates have availed themselves of the facility at the help desk since Tuesday.

Only 10 candidates registered their options at the facilitation centre at the Cooperative Institute of Technology, Vadakara, on Wednesday.

The candidates should come with their admit card containing the roll number, application number and key number for registering their options at the centres. The centre and help desk will function from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.

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