As had been feared, the Eamcet engineering web-based counselling was put off by a day due to confusion over the fee structure in 44 colleges and even the number of colleges to be included in the process. As per the schedule announced by the Eamcet convener earlier, rankers from 1 to 40,000 were asked to give options regarding their preferred colleges and courses on August 30 and 31. It has now been revised to August 31 and September 1.
However, students can generate their passwords by using their registration numbers on Thursday itself so that they can enter their options online. The fate of 130 engineering colleges still hangs in balance as they are yet to be included in the counselling. Till 6 pm on Wednesday, only 587 engineering colleges out of 717 had been included for counselling. Eamcet rankers, meanwhile, are still clueless about the online counselling, with the government failing to put up complete details on the website. Even officials, involved with Eamcet counselling for years, described it as the “worst counselling” ever.