<p>Among 1,600 students who were scheduled to attend the seat selection process, only 871 picked up the seats, as the rest had either opted for medical courses or joined other premier engineering institutes. <br /><br />Electronics and Communication (E&C), Mechanical, and Computer Science (CS) streams continued to attract the students. Interestingly, a number of girls also opted for mechanical, a stream which is widely dominated by the boys. <br /><br />Abhilash, who aspired for an E&C seat, had to settle for Computer Science. “I have chosen RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Even though I aspired for an E&C seat, I had to be content with CS. Even in CS, it was the last seat,” he said. <br /><br />Quota exhausted<br /><br />By 2 pm, seats in E&C and CS had run out in top colleges. At BMS College of Engineering, only one seat in Computer Science under General Merit-Kannada quota remains. All seats in E&C and CS at RVCE and PESIT under GM quota have exhausted. <br /><br />Sreesaraj was lucky enough to get what he had come for. Ranked 2,681, he got into Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. “I had set my eyes on that institute even before I attended the counselling. I’m glad I got what I wanted,” he said. <br /><br />There was constant rush inside the hall, but most parents seemed content with the process. A Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) official blamed the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for “playing havoc” with the State. <br /><br />“In Karnataka, the semester starts around August, whereas in other states it starts in November. The seat matrix and other formalities could have been cleared earlier, had the process started before January. The rush could have been easily avoided,” he said. <br /><br />Meanwhile, KEA stated that mutual transfer of seats among students after the final round of counselling would be stopped. “As per the consensual agreement signed by the State Government and the Managements of Private Medical/Dental and Engineering Colleges’ Association, there will be no mutual transfer of seats after the final round of counselling,” the statement said. On Saturday, students ranked from 3,201 to 4,800 will have to select the seats. </p>
<p>Among 1,600 students who were scheduled to attend the seat selection process, only 871 picked up the seats, as the rest had either opted for medical courses or joined other premier engineering institutes. <br /><br />Electronics and Communication (E&C), Mechanical, and Computer Science (CS) streams continued to attract the students. Interestingly, a number of girls also opted for mechanical, a stream which is widely dominated by the boys. <br /><br />Abhilash, who aspired for an E&C seat, had to settle for Computer Science. “I have chosen RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Even though I aspired for an E&C seat, I had to be content with CS. Even in CS, it was the last seat,” he said. <br /><br />Quota exhausted<br /><br />By 2 pm, seats in E&C and CS had run out in top colleges. At BMS College of Engineering, only one seat in Computer Science under General Merit-Kannada quota remains. All seats in E&C and CS at RVCE and PESIT under GM quota have exhausted. <br /><br />Sreesaraj was lucky enough to get what he had come for. Ranked 2,681, he got into Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. “I had set my eyes on that institute even before I attended the counselling. I’m glad I got what I wanted,” he said. <br /><br />There was constant rush inside the hall, but most parents seemed content with the process. A Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) official blamed the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for “playing havoc” with the State. <br /><br />“In Karnataka, the semester starts around August, whereas in other states it starts in November. The seat matrix and other formalities could have been cleared earlier, had the process started before January. The rush could have been easily avoided,” he said. <br /><br />Meanwhile, KEA stated that mutual transfer of seats among students after the final round of counselling would be stopped. “As per the consensual agreement signed by the State Government and the Managements of Private Medical/Dental and Engineering Colleges’ Association, there will be no mutual transfer of seats after the final round of counselling,” the statement said. On Saturday, students ranked from 3,201 to 4,800 will have to select the seats. </p>
