CET admissions 2014: Hyderabad High Court breather for BE colleges may be too late
26 Aug 2014 7:57 AM IST
Order comes just before Cet options closed, colleges lose hope of getting students
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday directed the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, to permit private engineering colleges with the requisite qualified faculty to take part in the ongoing Web counselling of Eamcet 2014 admissions in Telangana. Justice A. Rajasekhar Reddy granted the order in a batch of petitions challenging the action of the varsity in disaffiliating 174 colleges on the ground of inadequate facilities.
The judge found fault with the action of JNTU and observed: “If the JNTU-Hyderabad was serious enough in the matter, it would have intimated the colleges about the deficiencies well in advance to rectify them. But it had informed about the same after filing of writs and straightaway deleted the colleges’ names from the list.”
However, the engineering colleges in Telangana are in no better position following the High Court direction. With the Eamcet Web counselling ending on Monday, the prospects of these engineering colleges still look bleak. The AP State Council of Higher Education has said that it will take a decision after JNTU-H sends the list of engineering colleges sticking to the norms, as per the HC directions.
Students who have already stated their preferred colleges and streams through web counselling will get a chance to change it on these two days.
The college managements themselves don’t expect to fill seats through change of options on these two days, so the High Court direction may not bring much reprieve. Again, inclusion in the list for change of options is subject to time by which JNTU sends the list to APSCHE.
APSCHE chairman Prof. L. Venugopala Reddy, said, “There will be clarity only by tomorrow. JNTU has to send the list of colleges and once they send it, we will see what can be done.” However, senior officials don’t think that JNTU will be able to send the list to the APSCHE by Tuesday. The colleges might have landed themselves in a trickier spot because they might not be able fill their seats.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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