The confusion over admission into IITs owing to the Supreme Court stay has made early completion of admission in engineering colleges doubtful in Telangana.
The Telangana government has prepared its second phase schedule based on the completion of IIT and NIT admission so as to ensure that seats in government colleges would not go waste with the toppers opting for the national institutions leaving the seats vacant. However, with the Supreme Court’s decision, the schedule may go haywire.
Earlier, the officials had planned to start the second phase of engineering admission after July 20 when the IIT and NIT admission were supposed to be completed as per the original schedule. But now, there is no clarity on them. Officials are in a dilemma whether to wait for the completion of the IIT and NIT admission or go ahead with its earlier plan.
Vacant seats
If they go ahead with the admission without waiting for the IIT and NIT ones, nearly 100 seats in top colleges like OU College of Engineering and JNTU-H College of Engineering may go vacant. EAMCET toppers, who are already admitted in these institutions, generally opt for seats in IITs and NITs.
Last year, 40 seats went vacant in JNTU-H while OUCE saw 30 seats going waste as they could not be filled by the colleges themselves. Instead of going for a third phase, the administration preferred to leave the seats vacant fearing the laborious process that would have disturbed the entire schedule. This year, in the first phase of seat allotment, all the 3,060 engineering seats in 14 university colleges have been filled.
The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) Chairman, T. Papi Reddy, said keeping this trend in view, the second phase schedule was prepared. He said students leave if they get a seat in IIT or NIT in the seven-phase admission process. “However, we will wait for the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday and take a final view of our schedule,” he said.
Generally, the top private colleges whose students also leave midway for IITs and NITs adjust their seats through spot admission or through the applicants of the management quota. Such facility cannot be extended in the government colleges as the convenor is responsible for admission in them while there is no management quota either for filling the seats.
