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EAMCET counselling begins

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Top three rankers who took admission from Vizag centre opt for ECE branch

BC Sangham president visits counselling centre to see implementation of quota rule
Officials of Andhra Bank and Indian Bank issue loan offer letters

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High drama: SFI activists, who squatted on the National Highway, being removed by the police outside the Government Polytechnic in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. —

VISAKHAPATNAM: The first day of the online EAMCET counselling for admission into various engineering colleges passed off peacefully barring a protest by activists owing allegiance to the Students Federation of India (SFI) seeking withdrawal of the hike in fee.

The SFI activists, who included girls, gathered outside the Government Polytechnic College where the counselling was going on and raised slogans demanding reduction in the fee.

Later, they squatted on the National Highway (NH-5) and held up traffic for about 10 minutes. While Kancharapalem CI U. Ravi Prakash and his team removed the agitating male activists, the women constables had a tough time in dragging the girls aside.

Top option

Interestingly, all the top three rankers who took admission from Visakhapatnam centre opted for the ECE branch. Muppuri Raj Anup, who bagged the 31st rank, opted for AU College of Engineering. A student of Sri Mega Junior College in the city, he obtained 153 marks in EAMCET. His father M.V.S. Chandrasekhara Rao is the director of the same college. Chintada Narasimha Murthy, who secured the 39th rank, opted for the JNTU in Hyderabad.

He had done his Intermediate from Sri Chaitanya Junior College in the city. His father is a senior assistant in the Irrigation Department at Parvathipuram. D. Pushpalatha, who secured the 49th rank, also did her Intermediate for Sri Chaitanya Junior College. She opted for OU College of Engineering.

President of AP BC Sangham R. Krishnayya visited the counselling centre to see that the rule of reservation for BCs was being implemented properly.

He said that BC students whose annual family income was Rs.1 lakh or less would be given free seats provided they get the caste certificate. He said the counselling authorities were giving time to students to produce the caste certificates. Officials of Andhra Bank and Indian Bank gave offer letters to the rankers asking them to avail themselves of education loans from their banks. Deputy General Manager of Andhra Bank A.V.S.N. Murthy handed over the loan allotment letter to M. Raj Anup (31st rank) in presence of Government Polytechnic College Principal K. Sandhya Rani, bank’s AGM K. Gopalakrishna and Chief Managers K.V. Subbaiah and K. Seetharam Prasad.

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