Anna univ to accept DDs for engg counselling
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 12.05.2018
Students seeking admission to engineering courses can pay the fee for counselling by demand draft, Anna University informed the Madras high court on Friday. This is in addition to payments through credit, debit cards and internet banking, it said.
The entire admission process will be online this year.
The university arrived at the decision after the high court made it clear that the university could not expect rural students who might not have bank accounts to make the payment only through credit and debit cards or via internet banking.
“We will accept payment through demand draft and in turn remit the fee online from the university’s current account,” additional advocategeneral C Manishankar said.
Several petitioners, including DMK’s Kancheepuram MLA C V M P Ezhilarasan, filed a batch of PILs seeking a court direction to the university to conduct both online and offline counselling. The university initially said it could not accept other payment modes because of the online counselling system.
When the pleas came up for hearing on Friday, Manishankar filed an affidavit stating that registration and payment had been online only for the past two years. This year, the university would make provision for payment by DD in addition to the online payment facility, he said.
“Since the online registration is already in progress,” he said, it would require “one week for testing, validation and security checks” for the university to offer payment by demand draft without interfering with the process that is already underway. The DD payment option will be avaliable at 2,580 counters in 42 facilitation centres across the state, he said.
A vacation bench of Justice V Parthiban and Justice P D Audikesavalu recorded the statement and said it would soon pass a detailed order.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 12.05.2018
Students seeking admission to engineering courses can pay the fee for counselling by demand draft, Anna University informed the Madras high court on Friday. This is in addition to payments through credit, debit cards and internet banking, it said.
The entire admission process will be online this year.
The university arrived at the decision after the high court made it clear that the university could not expect rural students who might not have bank accounts to make the payment only through credit and debit cards or via internet banking.
“We will accept payment through demand draft and in turn remit the fee online from the university’s current account,” additional advocategeneral C Manishankar said.
Several petitioners, including DMK’s Kancheepuram MLA C V M P Ezhilarasan, filed a batch of PILs seeking a court direction to the university to conduct both online and offline counselling. The university initially said it could not accept other payment modes because of the online counselling system.
When the pleas came up for hearing on Friday, Manishankar filed an affidavit stating that registration and payment had been online only for the past two years. This year, the university would make provision for payment by DD in addition to the online payment facility, he said.
“Since the online registration is already in progress,” he said, it would require “one week for testing, validation and security checks” for the university to offer payment by demand draft without interfering with the process that is already underway. The DD payment option will be avaliable at 2,580 counters in 42 facilitation centres across the state, he said.
A vacation bench of Justice V Parthiban and Justice P D Audikesavalu recorded the statement and said it would soon pass a detailed order.
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