OJEE plans for second phase counseling

--25,820 Engg seats lie vacant in State

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) is planning to go for a second phase counseling as 25,820 engineering seats still lied vacant in the colleges across the State.

On Friday, the OJEE published provisional list of engineering counseling. Out of the total 45, 677 seats at various engineering colleges in the State, only 19,647 students have taken admission this year.

“As we have many vacant seats in various colleges, we are planning to go for a second phase counseling to fill the vacant seats,” said OJEE secretary Priyabrata Sahu.

In view of the counseling for admission into B Tech and B Pharm courses for JEE (Main)-2013 and NEET-UG, 2013 rank holder candidates in private engineering and pharmacy colleges, the provisional allotments, withdrawal and final allotment for engineering (B Tech) and Pharmacy (B Pharm) streams for all OJEE -2013, JEE main/NEET-UG   are rescheduled, OJEE sources said.