Toppers keen to join govt colleges

Students topped in IPE have chosen to join university and government degree colleges

Hyderabad: Introduction of new undergraduate courses and course combinations within faculty/stream has evoked good response from students for seats in the Government Degree Colleges and University Constituent Colleges through Degree Online Services, Telangana (DOST) 2020.

In phase-I admissions of the DOST, while there are 4,018 degree seats in nine university constituent colleges in the State, 2,818 seats were already confirmed by candidates in the phase-I and 1,376 fresh seat allotments were done in phase-II. Similarly, out of 69,660 seats in 123 Government Degree Colleges, 26,439 were confirmed in the first phase admissions and 19,309 new seat allotments were done in phase-II. The seats are allotted on the basis of options exercised by students on the DOST.

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In fact, several toppers in the intermediate public examinations 2020 have chosen to join the university and government degree colleges. For a case in point, Gurle Vaishnavi who scored 99.20 per cent in intermediate and secured first rank in DOST opted for University College for Women, Koti, Osmania University. She was allotted a seat in BSc Physical Science stream. Another student Kethavath Anil Kumar who secured second rank in the DOST after scoring 99.10 per cent in the intermediate was allotted a seat in BSc Physical Science stream in Nizam College, Hyderabad in phase-I admissions.

This year, while there are 4,09,450 seats in 986 degree colleges including University, Government, Private Aided, Private Unaided and Railway Degree College, 2,41,266 seats remained unallocated after phase-II seat allocation. Majority, 2,09,374, vacant seats are in 812 private unaided degree colleges.

Of the total available seats, so far 1,24,798 seats were confirmed in the phase-I and phase-II admissions. Those candidates who received seat allotment order in the phase-II, must self-report online, pay the applicable fee and reserve the seat on or before October 6. The registrations for the phase-III admissions can be done till October 5 and web options can be exercised till October 6. The seat allotment for phase-III registered candidates will be done on October 10, while online self-reporting is from October 10 to 15.

According to the DOST schedule issued by the Telangana State Council of Higher Education, candidates who have confirmed their seats in phase-I, II and III must report to their allotted colleges from October 10 to 15. The commencement of classwork for semester-I will be announced later.