Hyderabad, Sep 30th: Eamcet officials have decided to surrender vacant seats in the convener quota to respective engineering colleges and have asked them to conduct spot admissions on their own way by issuing notifications in newspapers. This decision was taken as about 9,017 seats remained vacant despite of conducting two rounds of counseling. The Eamcet officials have decided not to conduct a third round of counseling as it would delay the academic session further.

While 1, 38,617 students were allotted seats in the first phase, about 14,430 of them have not reported to the colleges to claim admissions. In the second phase, the counseling was held for 27,793 seats but only 18,776 seats were filled up. A total of 2, 42,820 have qualified in the Eamcet engineering stream. With the addition of new colleges apart from the increase in seats in the existing colleges, the seats in convener quota went up from 1, 46,155 seats in the first phase to 1, 52,124 seats in the second phase.