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Web counselling may end up in legal wrangles

HYDERABAD: The web counselling for engineering students has surprised many students with the allotment of new colleges and courses, sometimes colleges not so good than their previous allotment, leading to dissatisfaction among a few hundreds of them.

Going by the mood of the students and parents the issue may end up in legal wrangles. The complaint of several students is that the options given by them were changed and given a chance they would have retained their earlier allotment.

But officials make it clear that the software written for the purpose was fool-proof and they could not have changed the options since they can’t access them as the password was with the students. Lack of total information and absence of proper guidance seems to have led to the present confusion.

‘Charge not true’

Technical Education Commissioner L. Prem Chandra Reddy said the objections raised by students were not true.

In some cases, students did not do proper home work before entering the final options while in some cases they changed in the last moment with the help of friends and without the knowledge of parents. They did not use the option of taking printouts to study the mistakes and rectify.

“All the students who came with objections were shown the print outs of the options they submitted and they were satisfied with the explanations,” he said.

Confused lot

But students are still in confusion whether the search included their already admitted course and college or only the new options were taken into account.

Some students say they could not have lost seats in good colleges as was done in some cases and they blame it on the confused mode of selection by the software.

However, officials clarify that options given in the web counselling that were already offered to the candidates in the first phase as per their rank were automatically excluded while making allotments.

‘Cancel counselling’

Students demand that allotments made through web based counselling be cancelled since hundreds of students are facing problems with it.

“It is not the question of a few students but thousands of students who feel the web counselling did not do justice to them. Let the officials stop counselling and look into the entire aspect to give confidence to students,” said Ramchandra, uncle of an effected candidate from Nellore.

He said they would move the courts if officials fail to respond. APSCHE Secretary M.D. Christopher, however, clarified that changes may not be possible now since the seats vacated by the candidates were already allotted to other candidates.

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