Nearly 40 per cent of seats in Telangana engineering and pharmacy colleges went vacant after the first phase of seat allotment that was done on Friday. The allotments are available onhttps://tseamcet.nic.inwhile all the candidates were also informed about their allotment through SMSs.

Out of the 86,313 available seats, only 53,347 were filled while the remaining 32,966 went vacant. Interestingly, 9,321 candidates gave options, but were not allotted a seat due to various reasons including fewer options given and their ranks not matching with the seat availability in their chosen college or course.

The first EAMCET conducted in the new Telangana State saw 98,643 students qualifying of which only 62,668 candidates opted to study engineering and pharmacy courses. In all 24,27,724 options were given with the maximum options entered by a candidate was 599, while the minimum options entered was just one.

In 79 colleges all the seats were filled. Five colleges got zero admissions while another 29 colleges could attract only single digit admission. The final phase of option entry will be done on July 29 and 30 and the final phase allotment will be done on July 31.

Self reporting mandatory

Candidates, who don’t have to pay any fee have to join through the self reporting system on the website and take a print out of the joining report. Those candidates who have to pay the tuition fee have to download the challan form from the website which contains three counterfoils. They have to pay the fee mentioned on challan in any branch of State Bank of Hyderabad and report through the website using self reporting system on next day.

Self Reporting is mandatory for both zero fee and others candidates. The last date for payment of fee through challan is July 27 and the last date for self reporting is July 28.

Those who don’t report through self reporting system will lose their seat and cannot claim the seat later. Candidates can opt for second phase of counselling, if they are not satisfied with the college or course allotted. However, all the candidates have to submit the provisional allotment order, joining report and original certificates only after final phase at the college.

CSE was the top choice followed by ECE, Mechanical, Civil and Electrical streams. The CSE stream was chosen by 6,440 while 4,522 remained vacant. The ECE was opted by 12,918 candidates while 8,225 remained vacant. Mechanical Engineering attracted 7,726 students while 5,445 seats went vacant. The Civil Engineering saw 6,242 students opting and 4,013 seats going vacant. Electrical Engineering stream was opted by 5,370 candidates while 5,700 seats were left.

They were followed by IT (2,394), Mining (361), Chemical (243) and Aeronautical (239). Pharmacy course received very poor response with only 125 candidates opting for it out of the 3,778 seats allocated for engineering candidates.