bhopal imagine a situation where a student would not be allotted a seat in any engineering college in madhya pradesh despite several thousand of seats remaining vacant this has been happening every year in the state because of lack of proper information among students at the time of filling choices for allotment of seats before the counselling according to directorate of technical education around 3000 students were not allotted seats in 2011 even when 24000 seats remained vacant in the year the situation is expected to be the same this year also sources in technical education department sources students who come from small districts face this problem more in the absence of proper information several students locked their choices to top institutes despite having low ranking in preengineering test pet i had no idea while filling the choice for the college allotment i wanted to take admission in a prestigious institute i locked the choice accordingly however i was not allotted any college student from betul prashant mishra said who appeared last year in pet this had happened because i had poor marks and did not realize that i wont get admission in the desired colleges he added that he had to take admission in college level counselling in several other states students are informed about the complete process of counselling through various means including websites advertisements on radio newspapers among others i have not seen any such system in mp where information is propagated through various means about the process of choice filling the concerned department should provide information to the students that they avoid filling preferences to top colleges if their marks in preengineering test are not good anshu kumari from harda district said however few students among such candidates took drop to prepare for next year i took a drop last year and again appeared in the pet i wanted a particular college last year but it was not allowed owing to my wrong preference hope this year i will get the seat in the desired college pratap singh a student from the neighbouring sehore said when asked a dte official on the condition of anonymity said the department had provided opportunity this year to the students to change their choice another chance to fill the choice may help students avoid the situation of not getting any seat in engineering college however there is a need to make aware students for filling proper choices in colleges he said director technical education did not respond despite several attempts to contact him