Second round of engineering counselling in Anna University from August 16

TNN | Updated: Aug 13, 2017, 06:22 AM IST

CHENNAI: After filling up only 49% of government quota engineering seats through TNEA (Tamil NaduEngineering Admission), Anna University will now have second round of counselling from August 16 to 18.

About 2,000 to 3,000 seats are expected to be filled through this second-round which will take in students for unfilled seats across general and vocational streams. But unlike registration for the general round which was done via web, the candidates will have to apply on August 16 at the Anna University campus for an on-the-spot registration.

For reserved category like the Adi-Dravidar students, counselling will be conducted on August 18, through the same on-the-spot registration process. "Based on ranking of the newly registered candidates, they will be allotted seats across the affiliated colleges," said Anna University registrar S Ganesan.

The counselling, he stated, will provide a window for the students who had for instance failed class 12 and had to give supplementary exams, or those who had not previously applied.

This year, a total of 1.75 lakh government quota seats were up for grabs, among the four constituent colleges of Anna University and its 500 odd affiliated colleges. But only about 49% have been filled, with only 86,355 of these seats have been allotted to candidates.

"Many colleges surrendered some extra seats to the general counselling pool as well, which explains why the vacancy left after counselling is high. With this round, we hope to add some extra seats for reserved category like Scheduled Cast," added Ganesan.