HYDERABAD: The second phase of Eamcet counselling for engineering courses concluded on Friday and results would be declared on Saturday. Meanwhile the representatives of private engineering colleges have been lobbying for relaxed government measures to fill around 70,000 seats which remained vacant after the first round of counselling.The demands by the colleges include starting second shift classes to make up for the management quota seats which had few takers. “The AICTE has given permission to run second shift classes to some engineering colleges but given the 700-odd engineering colleges across the state, the government does not approve of it. It is a policy that applies only to states where there is a shortage of engineering colleges,” explained Professor P. Jaya Prakash Rao, chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE). Calling it a measure to attract students to apply for management quota seats in established private engineering colleges, general secretary of Andhra Pradesh Private Engineering Colleges Management Association, said it was unlikely that the government would approve of the scheme. Previously, after attaining the permission of AICTE, private colleges were instructed by the government to inform the students enrolled in the second shift that the course was unaccredited.The demand by private colleges for reducing the cut-off percentage from 45 per cent to allow more candidates to opt for engineering courses is unlikely to be accepted as well. From the 3.10 lakh engineering seats on offer in the state, the first phase of counselling saw an allotment of 1,36,882 seats while a large chunk remained vacant.
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