Card payment norm troubles engineering aspirants
Karthik Madhavan
COIMBATORE, May 05, 2018 00:00 IST
Use of debit or credit card to apply for admission to engineering courses through the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) 2018 process seems to have troubled a few aspirants. With the admission and counselling process going completely online this year, the aspirants will have to apply online and during the application process pay online as well.
A few aspirants found this difficult in the first two days of the application being made available online, said sources in two of the three TNEA Facilitation Centres (TFCs).
They reached the TFCs fully prepared to apply online but did not have either credit or debit card. They offered cash. But the people manning the TFCs rejected them saying that they did not accept cash and should pay only using either debit or credit cards. Or through net banking facility, said sources.
People, who offered cash to pay for the application, were under the impression that they would have to pay cash to apply, as they did in the past or did so with other institutions. For such aspirants, the people manning TFCs suggested that they call up friends or family members get their card details to complete the online application process, they added.
The other big issue was of the aspirants not having e-mail account. Anticipating the problem, the volunteers at the TFCs helped them in creating e-mail accounts as well. The other issues were wrong entries or spelling mistakes in entries and queries related to community to be entered in the application form.
A source at a TFC said the confusion was related to similar sounding communities like Vanniyars or Vaniyars. The volunteers had helped out aspirants in such issues as well.
As far as CBSE candidates were concerned, the volunteers had to tell them that they would have to wait till the publication of results as they would have to enter marks online. Plus Two students under the State Board need not wait as they could enter their 2018 Plus Two examination registration number. For, the TNEA would directly get the marks from the School Education Department based on the registration numbers entered.
The first two days saw 92 aspirants apply at the TFC at the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, 22 aspirants apply at the TFC at the Anna University Regional Centre, Coimbatore, and 141 aspirants apply at the TFC at the Coimbatore Institute of Technology.
Karthik Madhavan
COIMBATORE, May 05, 2018 00:00 IST
Use of debit or credit card to apply for admission to engineering courses through the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) 2018 process seems to have troubled a few aspirants. With the admission and counselling process going completely online this year, the aspirants will have to apply online and during the application process pay online as well.
A few aspirants found this difficult in the first two days of the application being made available online, said sources in two of the three TNEA Facilitation Centres (TFCs).
They reached the TFCs fully prepared to apply online but did not have either credit or debit card. They offered cash. But the people manning the TFCs rejected them saying that they did not accept cash and should pay only using either debit or credit cards. Or through net banking facility, said sources.
People, who offered cash to pay for the application, were under the impression that they would have to pay cash to apply, as they did in the past or did so with other institutions. For such aspirants, the people manning TFCs suggested that they call up friends or family members get their card details to complete the online application process, they added.
The other big issue was of the aspirants not having e-mail account. Anticipating the problem, the volunteers at the TFCs helped them in creating e-mail accounts as well. The other issues were wrong entries or spelling mistakes in entries and queries related to community to be entered in the application form.
A source at a TFC said the confusion was related to similar sounding communities like Vanniyars or Vaniyars. The volunteers had helped out aspirants in such issues as well.
As far as CBSE candidates were concerned, the volunteers had to tell them that they would have to wait till the publication of results as they would have to enter marks online. Plus Two students under the State Board need not wait as they could enter their 2018 Plus Two examination registration number. For, the TNEA would directly get the marks from the School Education Department based on the registration numbers entered.
The first two days saw 92 aspirants apply at the TFC at the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, 22 aspirants apply at the TFC at the Anna University Regional Centre, Coimbatore, and 141 aspirants apply at the TFC at the Coimbatore Institute of Technology.
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