Despite the case about filling of engineering seats under the management quota pending before the HC, admissions-starved private college managements in the state are trapping Eamcet-qualified candidates, assuring them of a seat in B-Category and asking them to submit their original certificates.
When contacted by Express, a dean of a private college located on the Hyderabad-Vijaywada highway promised admission and asked the candidate to visit the college along with original certificates on Monday.
A number of students and teachers of several private colleges in Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts, whom this correspondent contacted, said that college managements were collecting the original certificates from candidates.
If a candidate submits his original certificate to a private college, he or she will have no chance to participate in the web counselling as he will need the original certificates to attend the session of certificate verification.
An assistant professor at a college said college managements should at least ask candidates to take admission through online counselling and keeping the original certificates with them if the court did not allow them to fill the management quota seats.
The managements, unmindful of the warnings of stern action from the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) against admitting students before the final verdict of HC.
APSCHE chairman P Jayaprakasha Rao served show-cause notices on a couple of engineering colleges a week ago for issuing notifications in newspapers inviting admissions to B-Category seats and warned of stern action.
APSCHE secretary P Sathi Reddy told Express that they would initiate appropriate action against colleges found violating the admission guidelines. However, he said that they did not receive any such complaints so far.