After increasing the last date for admission twice, 6780 students took admission in engineering colleges of Chhattisgarh till Thursday which also included 120 students joining OPJindal Institute of Technology (OPJIT), Raigarh.
With this, out of the 12,080 seats allotted for admission to the aspirants through PET counselling, 5,300 seats remained vacant. Officials of Technical Education Directorate were optimistic of filling of all these vacant seats during second phase of counselling beginning from Friday.
Notably, there are 47 engineering colleges in Chhattisgarh having a total of 18,860 seats. Out of these, 16,537 seats are available for PET quota for which first phase counselling was held from June 15 while verification documents was held from June 17 to June 26. On June 27, DTE announced allotment of 12,080 seats for admission out of which only 6,475 seats were filled till July 4. Seeing the low rate of admission DTE revised the last date for admission to July 8 but again the admission touched only 6,599 mark.
According to technical education department officials, in the first phase of counselling seats of all famous colleges have almost been filled. Only two dozen colleges are having large number of seats still vacant. During the second phase of online counselling remaining seats will be allotted for admission. Most of the vacant seats are of reserved quota which would be filled from general category candidates if students of the category concerned are not available till the fixed date.
Notably, the second phase of counselling is beginning from July 12 while verification of documents would be held till July 15 and allotment of seats would be announced the same day at 8 pm. Third phase of counselling will be organised from July 19 to 22 while fourth round of will be held from July 26 to 28 if the seats remain vacant.
Deputy director of the Directorate of Technical Education G P Nayak said ‘‘In the first phase of counselling 12,080 seats were allotted for admission out of which 6,780 students took admission including the 120 students who joined OPJIT Raipur during the two days extension time on Wednesday and Thursday. Jindal Engineering College has 168 seats for PET quota. Now, in the second phase admission will not be given on the seats allotted during first round of counselling as the DTE has extended admission dates twice,’’ he added.