Preference to AIEEE qualified candidates in admissions to category B or ‘management quota’ seats may be a disadvantage to those who chose to appear only for EAMCET.
The GO issued for guidelines on the web-based counselling for EAMCET category B seats directs private engineering colleges to prioritise candidates based on NRI status followed by AIEEE rank, while preparing the merit list. The remaining seats will be filled by those securing a rank in EAMCET.
The provision to consider AIEEE ranks was introduced for the intake of students from states and union territories other than Andhra Pradesh.
“The provision has always been in place since it is the only criteria to judge students’ merit from outside the state,” said professor P.Jaya Prakash Rao, chairman of the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). However, the students were unaware of the fact that AIEEE are given the second preference in the preparation of merit list.
“Only 15 percent non-locals can be admitted to a given col lege, ” observed P. Rajeshwar Reddy, chairman of the Consortium of Engineering College Managements Association (CECMA).
The misuse of AIEEE ranks to block seats in the web-based allotment so as to ‘sell’ the vacancies to the highest bidder at the end is not possible, said the APSCHE chairman.
“We have not mentioned in the GO that the seats which remain vacant at the end of second round of allotments will be handed over to the managements for admissions of whoever they choose. The seats which remain unfilled will continue to be so at the end of the process,” said the chairman.
The allotment of management quota seats might be concluded by October 20. Given there are close to 1.5 lakh seats under the management quota, a large number of seats will find no takers.
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