Litigation-free key to be released

By Our Staff Reporter

GUNTUR, MAY 1. All arrangements have been made for smooth conduct of the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Tests (EAMCET-2000) on May 5, according to the Minister of State for Technical Education, Mr. Alapati Rajendra Prasad.

Disclosing this at a press conference, Mr. Rajendra Prasad said the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) would be conducting the EAMCET this year. As many as 1,17,931 candidates would appear for the engineering entrance examination, while 42,027 candidates would write the agricultural and medical entrance. Hall tickets had been despatched by post to all candidates appearing in the examination for the 14 places across the State.

Duplicate hall tickets would be issued to those who did not receive them free of cost on May 3 and 4 by the Chief Superintendents of the respective centres. If the candidates could not identify the respective test centres, they could as well approach the regional coordinator of their area. The hall- ticket number and the test centre would be informed by the regional coordinators' offices, if the candidates gave them their respective registration or application number. The candidates could then obtain duplicate hall tickets from their respective chief superintendents of the test centres on production of passport size photographs.

Mr. Prasad said that 237 test centres were earmarked for engineering entrance while the medical entrance would be conducted in 80 centres. The examination for engineering entrance would be held between 10 am and 1 pm while the test for the medicine stream would be conducted between 2-30 p.m. and 5-30 p.m.

The Collectors and Superintendents of Police of 14 districts were requested to help the regional coordinators and chief superintendents in the peaceful conduct of the examination. The confidential and non- confidential material had already been despatched to the respective examination centres. In case of any problem in the conduct of the examination, the EAMCET convener could be contacted on the phone. The phone numbers are 040- 3305464 and 040-6573718.

In all, 1,20,345 applications for engineering and 43,061 for medical entrance were sold. The total number of applications received in the engineering stream were 1,18,476 and medicine and agriculture streams were 42,241. The Minister of State said that 87,057 boys and 30,874 girls were appearing for the engineering entrance while 21,638 boys and 20,389 girls would take the medical entrance test. The number of candidates was relatively higher compared to that last year, he disclosed.

A video-conference would be conducted with all the officials concerned on May 3 on the conduct of the EAMCET to verify their preparedness and rectify the minor defects, if any, said Mr. Prasad. The code of the examination paper would be drawn from lots in Hyderabad on May 5 in the morning and the same would be aired through All India Radio.

Counselling process

The Government was proposing to decentralise the counselling process and launch on-line admission system from the 14 regional centres. Mr. Rajendra Prasad said that all the systems would be connected - akin to railway reservation - and the candidates seeking admission to different courses in various colleges would have to indicate their priorities. A special software was being developed to decentralise the admission procedure.

The Government was also considering the idea of directing the students to pay the fee at the colleges to which they were allotted instead of collecting it at the counselling centre and redirecting the same to the colleges concerned. The results would be uplinked in Internet and made available in as many web sites as possible.

Our Hyderabad Staff Reporter writes: A marked feature of the EAMCET would be the release of two keys, of which the final one will be ``litigation-free.''

The first key would be released after a couple of days of the test to which the students and academics can send their suggestions and corrections within a week. The final key would be prepared based on their suggestions.

Announcing this at a press conference here, Prof. Y. Venkatrami Reddy, Chairman, EAMCET-2000 and Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), said two expert committees had been constituted, both consisting of a lecturer each of junior, degree and P.G. colleges. The committees would look into all aspects and extreme care would be taken so as to curtail students moving the courts on the legality of questions.

This is the first time that the EAMCET Committee is going for two keys unlike the previous years where only one key was released. But that posed several problems in the announcement of results as lots of students approached courts claiming that questions were wrong or ambiguous answers were given. ``This time the effort was to prevent such errors and minimise the scope for legal hurdles'', he said.

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