Hyderabad: With counselling to begin at the end of the month, many top colleges are already blocking convenor quota seats for top rankers in the Eamcet. The twist, though, is that top rankers don’t choose colleges in the state but opt for the premier IITs and NITs. The colleges then sell the “blocked” seats under the management quota after counselling ends.
Some institutions even bribe students to opt for their colleges in counselling under convenor quota and then allow them to vacate the seat, leaving the seat open for sale under management quota.
According to existing rules, 70 per cent of the seats in 689 engineering colleges in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh can be filled under the convenor quota, for which students pay the government prescribed fee. The remaining 30 per cent seats are filled under the management quota at a higher fee.
However, college managements are devising new ways to circumvent the rules and sell more seats under the management quota.
A senior official of State Council of Higher Education (SCHE) said, “Colleges are reserving seats in the name of Eamcet top rankers in first counselling itself. Later, these seats are filled under management quota as the high rankers always get good results in other exams and go for national level colleges.”
In the other scam, where students are bribed to join a college and then withdraw after the third round of counselling (so that the seat falls vacant and can be sold under the management quota) officials say no action can be taken against the college because the students have legally applied and withdrawn and collusion between the two would be difficult to prove.
Fake reservation
70 per cent seats are filled under convenor quota.
30 per cent are filled under management quota.
Colleges reserve seats for top rankers; however, top rankers opt for national colleges, leaving these seats vacant. Vacant seats are then sold under management quota.
