Click to play videoWarangal: Varun Sarna is a biotechnology student at one of the National Institutes of Technology. But three years after taking up the course, Varun feels he made the wrong choice and blames poor admission counselling for it.
“There was just so much pressure during our times. No clarity, no awareness,” Varun said.
With most engineering entrance examinations done with, it is that time of the year when you run around counselling centres with your results to figure out which institution you have been allotted.
In Warangal, the headquarters of central Counselling Board figure out how they can make things easier this year onwards for aspiring engineers. The board has made the admission system to engineering colleges online this year.
This means, students will no longer have to travel to far away counselling centres. They can simply register online and fill in their preferences. Student's documents are later verified at the nearest admission centre.
“The idea of online counselling was initiated to stop the trouble that students and parents go through,” Director, Central Counselling Board, DR YV Rao said.
The new process cuts down admission processing time by half to just four weeks. Help desks have also been set up to assist students.
“Online counselling is really helpful. It is also economically beneficial since we won’t have to travel and yet gives us give a long list of choices,” father of an aspirant Laxminarayana said.
The online system covers admissions to 55 engineering colleges under the All India Common Engineering Entrance Exam and is expected to benefit over 1.85 lakh students.
Students need to register for admission at www.ccb.nic.in before June 28.
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