Eligibility cut-off for engineering admission raised
CHENNAI, MARCH 21, 2019 00:00 IST
The Higher Education department has issued an order raising the eligibility criteria for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in Anna University and its affiliated colleges.
The department has said that for the open category, students should have scored a minimum of 45% and for reserved category (BC, MBC, ST, SC) it has been fixed as 40%. This will come into effect from the next academic year. The G.O. has traced the long legal battle and counters presented by the All India Council for Technical Education since academic year 2010-2011. At that time, the government had fixed the eligibility at 50% average in the related subjects for open category; 45% for BC/BCM category; 40% for MBC/DNC candidates; and 35% for students in SCA/SC/ST category.
In the current G.O. dated February 26, Higher Education Secretary Mangat Ram Sharma has said: “The government, after careful examination, decided to accept the recommendation of Technical Education department and fix the minimum eligibility marks to admit students in the first year B.E./B.Tech degree courses from 2019-20 in all engineering colleges in the State on a par with AICTE norms.”
At present, the State government admits students with 35% marks and more in all the reserved category and candidates with 40% and above marks in the open category.
CHENNAI, MARCH 21, 2019 00:00 IST
The Higher Education department has issued an order raising the eligibility criteria for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in Anna University and its affiliated colleges.
The department has said that for the open category, students should have scored a minimum of 45% and for reserved category (BC, MBC, ST, SC) it has been fixed as 40%. This will come into effect from the next academic year. The G.O. has traced the long legal battle and counters presented by the All India Council for Technical Education since academic year 2010-2011. At that time, the government had fixed the eligibility at 50% average in the related subjects for open category; 45% for BC/BCM category; 40% for MBC/DNC candidates; and 35% for students in SCA/SC/ST category.
In the current G.O. dated February 26, Higher Education Secretary Mangat Ram Sharma has said: “The government, after careful examination, decided to accept the recommendation of Technical Education department and fix the minimum eligibility marks to admit students in the first year B.E./B.Tech degree courses from 2019-20 in all engineering colleges in the State on a par with AICTE norms.”
At present, the State government admits students with 35% marks and more in all the reserved category and candidates with 40% and above marks in the open category.
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