Confused and angry candidates of direct second year engineering admissions stormed the office of the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) last morning, following the goof-up in its Centralised Admission Process round 2. Around 700 candidates reached the office in CST, demanding clarity, so that they could either confirm their admissions or wait for the next list.

mid-day had reported yesterday on the Sunday shock these engineering diploma holders had got — some saw changes in their allotted colleges, while some didn't have any in the second merit list. "On Monday, when we reached the DTE office in huge numbers, all they said was a technical glitch had resulted in two different lists. It is really irresponsible on DTE's part to make such a mistake when thousands are anxiously waiting for admissions. But worse was that they didn't even bother putting up this explanation on the website. Had they done that right at the start, there would've been no confusion or panic," said a parent.