Hyderabad, July 03: The number of Eamcet qualifiers slipped to 2,59,753 this year when the ranks were announced on Friday, as 17,478 failed the Intermediate exams despite qualifying in Eamcet. Originally, 2,78,852 students had qualified in Eamcet, when the marks were announced on June 8. Of them, 14,497 students in the engineering stream and 2,981 students in the medical stream have failed the Intermediate exams this year.
This year, a total of 2,07,252 students have qualified in the engineering stream and 52,510 have qualified in the medical stream after the Eamcet ranks were announced. The deputy chief minister, Mr Damodara Raja Narasimha, who released the Eamcet ranks, said that the Web-based counselling for engineering admissions will be held from the third week of July. The online counselling for MBBS and BDS courses will commence from July 17. He said the All India Council for Technical Education has granted seven new engineering colleges this year to the state with an intake of 2,100 seats. At present, the state has 2,69,175 seats in 707 colleges.
He added that an additional 25,000 seats in the existing engineering colleges are expected to be approved due to increase in intake. “The engineering seats in the state are expected to cross the three-lakh mark this year. We have decided to follow a cut-off date of June 30 to include seats in the counselling. Any approvals given by AICTE after the cut-off date will not be considered for admissions this year and will be taken up only in the next academic year,” Mr Raja Narasimha said. He said the classes for first year engineering students will begin from August 16. There will be no change in the fees for engineering courses this year as the AFRC has decided to retain the existing fee structure for professional courses.
Source: Flashnewstoday