Admissions to category B or management quota seats in private engineering colleges were back to square one Tuesday with the High Court staying the online procedure decreed by the government.
Admissions to these seats, which were scheduled to commence from Wednesday, will now be conducted as per the procedure followed last year.
Acting chief justice P C Ghose and justice Vilas V Afzulpurkar ordered the about-turn after ruling that the switch to online admissions was decreed by the government after the Eamcet notification had been released, and that was not legally valid.
“Management quota seats are already sold out.
A deal was struck and money has changed hands.
Students have purchased the seats.
But rules were changed midway, which cannot be permitted,” the judges said.
Pithani Satyanarayana said the government will go to the Supreme Court to pursue its objective of enforcing online admission to management quota seats.
Having secured a stay, the colleges will now get down to selling their management quota seats as they have always done.
“We will come out with a notification for admissions within a week or so,” said P Rajeshwar Reddy, secretary of the Consortium of Engineering College Managements Association.
As per the government’s GOs 66 and 67, private engineering colleges were required to fill management seats on the basis of applications received online.
This required them to upload details of the total number of seats available as well as the branch-wise intake on the website http://apsche.cgg. nic.in.
The process was to be monitored by the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE).
Candidates would receive an electronic acknowledgement and the managements were required to upload details pertaining to the Eamcet ranking of the candidates selected.
The single window admission procedure was designed to ensure that no capitation fee or donation was collected by the managements.
Although some of the colleges say they will now commence admissions to their management quota, a large number of engineering colleges began the process right after Eamcet results were declared.
Some of them allegedly charged a capitation fee to the tune of `10 lakh for prime courses including ECE, EEE and computer sciences.
Managements of private engineering colleges expressed happiness over the court’s stay.
On the other hand, Government Junior Lecturers’ Association general secretary P Madhu Sudhan Reddy criticised the state government for not putting up an effective argument in favour of online admissions.
“It’s back to square one,” he said.
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