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Counselling for engineering students enters third day

PUDUCHERRY: At the end of the third day of counselling for the engineering stream, there are about 250 seats vacant and 2,521 candidates left in the fray.

Except for the reserved category, in the first two days of the counselling, all the seats in Pondicherry Engineering College, Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology and Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College got filled, according to CENTAC officials

Seats, inclusive of the general category, were vacant in Bharathiar College of Engineering, Karaikal (BCE), and Regency Institute of Technology, Yanam (RIT).

As the counselling ended on Wednesday, 80 per cent of the vacant seats in BCE and about 40 per cent of seats in RIT were filled.

Counselling would continue till August 30, officials said.

The trend so far suggested that there would be another 250 seats left in all categories. All the seats could be filled in the next two days, they said.

A total number of 3,721 candidates were sent call letters, and, already 1,200 got the seats through counselling, they said.

Like the previous year, the most sought-after stream was Electronics and Communication Engineering followed by Computer Science and Information Technology.

In the biology stream, the Government had sponsored 236 candidates and the second round of counselling would be held after August 4.

“The Government is yet to announce the fee structure for private medical colleges. As of now there are no seats left under the Government quota. Going by the past record, there will be a few more vacancies as some selected candidates may opt out,” an official said.

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