Timely completion of board examinations, common entrance tests, and the admission process will benefit both students and college managements in a big way. While the students need not scout for institutions outside the State, the colleges will see hundred per cent occupancy in their seats.
“This is indeed an achievement,” Anakapalle MP M. Srinivasa Rao has claimed.
He was speaking at a function organised by the AP Private Engineering Colleges Managements’ Association (APPECMA) to felicitate HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao here on Sunday.
It was after almost two decades that the EAMCET counselling process had begun in time, he said, adding that the entire machinery had to work against all odds. The APSCHE building and bank accounts had been seized by the Telangana government. In spite of it we were able to get things done in time, he said.
“At least 20,000 students will not leave the State for other engineering colleges this time. Colleges too will get good students and we expect all the seats to be filled after a long time,” said Dadi Ratnakar, correspondent and secretary of Dadi Institute of Engineering and Technology.
APPECMA convener M. Santhiramudu said that with the commencement of the counselling process, admissions were likely to be completed by July first week. This would be a big boon for the engineering colleges, he said.
Vice-Chancellor of JNTU-Kakinada V.S.S. Kumar said that the government’s decision to open up dual degree programmes and open source online courses would benefit both engineering colleges and State-run universities.
The others who spoke included AU Vice-Chancellor G.S.N. Raju, Pydah Krishna Prasad of Pydah Educational Institutions, president of GITAM University M.V.V.S. Murti, and APPECMA East Godavari convener Bonam Gopalkrishna.
‘Timely completion
of exams and commencement of admission process
are a boon to
both students
and institutions’
