Engg forms to be available till June 30

The Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for six autonomous engineering colleges began on June 18. Till June 27,a total of 12,412 forms were sold in the state,of which 2,953 were from Pune. “This year we had put up banners about the intake capacity,checklist of documents,cut-off and so on which minimized queries and confusion,” Dhokey said.

A total of 2,665 seats are up for grabs at the six autonomous engineering colleges— CoEP and VIT,Pune,Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT),and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI),Mumbai; Shri Guru Gobind Sinhji Institute of Engineering and Technology (SGGSIET),Nanded and Walchand College of Engineering (WCE),Sangli. Last year,about 12,700 forms were received for these colleges.

Students will be broadly divided into A,B,C and D categories depending on domicile. Students in category A will be the SSC /HSC pass-outs from Maharashtra,B category will have students who have passed SSC or HSC from outside Maharashtra with either the candidate’s father or mother being a domicile of Maharashtra,C refers to SSC and/or HSC pass students from outside Maharashtra with father or mother being a central government/government undertaking employee while category D relates to children of state employees on deputation outside the state.