HYDERABAD: Uncertainty looms large over the timing of the EAMCET-2014 counseling for admissions into Telangana engineering institutions with the newly appointed Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) Chairman T Papi Reddy declaring that the government will have its own counselling for its students. The AP State Council of Higher Education, as announced earlier, began the process of counselling with verification of certificates of students all over Andhra Pradesh, while in Hyderbaad, the verification of certificates of students who have qualified for NCC, sportsman, physically challenged and wards of ex-servicemen quotas was taken up.
APSCHE Chairman Prof L Venugopal Reddy said on Wednesday that counselling for Telangana students would being on Aug 9 but with Papi Reddy saying that Telangana would have its own counselling the issue is back to square one.
The Telangana government wants to wait till the Supreme Court gives its final verdict on August 11 as to when the counselling should begin and till such time there is no way the counselling can begin even for Andhra students since counselling has to be done for all the institutions in both the states simultaneously.
After taking over as the chairman of TSCHE on Thursday morning, Papi Reddy said that there was no need for students to panic since the Telangana government would not allow not even one student to suffer on any count. “We will have separate counselling for our students,” he said but pointed out that the admissions process would be over by the end of this month as per the apex court’s interim direction. He said that the issue of when to start the counselling for the Telangana students would be discussed at the meeting of TSCHE on Friday.
On Thursday, certificate verification took place for students who had obtained ranks upto 5,000 in the general category. Certificate verification, which will continue till August 23, was held at 34 centres in the 13 districts in Andhra Pradesh.