Smartphone app to help Madhya Pradesh engineering college aspirants

Madhya Pradesh engineering colleges have started a mobile app for smartphones through which students can avail of facilities on counselling, regiter for colleges and check seat allotments, reports The Hindustan Times.

The app has nine features available that will help the students in the following way. There is 'candidate status' where candidates can check their overall status related to counselling, 'allotment status' where allotment of college/engineering branch can be checked, 'choice filling BE' that will allow them to select college/branches for admission, 'change/forgot password' for password recovery, 'temporary password' for getting a temporary password at any stage, 'locate help centre' to know about designated centres meant for document verification, 'new registration' to register for counselling process at any stage, 'locate colleges' to find details and contact details of the college allotted to the candidate and 'counselling schedule' giving the details on the counselling process.

The admission for students who had apeared for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)is expected to begin from the second week of May, There are 85,000-90,000 engineering seats. If the seats are available, they will bealloted as per the results of Class 12 exams.