Telangana plans to hold centralised spot admissions from 2023-24 academic year

The centralised spot admissions will ensure merit and reservation in Telangana colleges. As per the new system, one application and fee will be sufficient for admissions to all participating colleges.

In order to make sure that meritorious students secure a seat in the spot admissions in private professional particularly engineering colleges in Telangana, the technical education department is planning to hold centralised spot admissions via web-based counselling from the 2023-24 academic year.  

Colleges flout merit, reservation norms

As per a report published in Telangana Roday, plans are being chalked out to end the current practice of institutional spot admissions and internal sliding (change of course within the same college) for various professional courses offered by private unaided colleges as most of them were found violating merit and reservation norms. 

In the engineering spot admissions, vacancies should be first filled with internal sliding and resultant vacancies are to be filled under spot admissions but this rule was also violated by several private engineering colleges. 

Also, candidates who qualified the Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET) and passed intermediate should be given first preference in the order of merit followed by candidates without TS EAMCET rank and passed intermediate. Even this norm was being flouted by colleges and students are being admitted who pay more fee or on a first-come-first serve basis.  

The department has introduced the centralised spot admissions for admitting students to the government polytechnic colleges in the state this academic year. “The centralised spot admissions will ensure merit and reservation. In this new system, one application and fee will suffice for admissions to all participating colleges instead of the present practice of submitting separate applications and paying fee at each college,” an official said. 

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