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Online engineering counselling for 1.75L seats to start on July 3
Registration Opens On May 2, Last Date May 31


TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:22.04.2019

Online counselling for more than 1.75 lakh BE and B Tech seats will commence on July 3, the tentative schedule released by the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE) said on Sunday. The rank list for engineering admissions will be released on June 17. The announcement brought to an end the confusion surrounding engineering counselling over the past few weeks.

As per the schedule, online registration would commence from May 2, with the last date for registration being May 31. Certificate verification will be held from June 6 to 11at facilitation centres to be set up by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee.

Following certificate verification, the rank list would be published, officials said. Counselling for special categories including the differentl-abled will be held from June 20 to 22. Online counselling will be conducted from July 3 to 28 and supplement counselling on July 29.

“Like last time, this year too online counselling will be held in five rounds. But, this would be finalised after seeing the total number of applications [received],” a source said.

The resignation of Anna University vice-chancellor M K Surappa from the TNEA committee lad to doubts over the participation of the varsity in engineering counselling. The university’s faculty who are part of the TNEA panel skipped the first coordination committee meeting, which added more confusion about the technical university’s participation in the process.

However, after the intervention of the government, Anna University may help DOTE officials in conducting online engineering counselling this year.

“It is a great relief for engineering aspirants. Hopefully, DOTE will start the online counselling process on war footing to make it secure and transparent,” career consultant Jayaprakash A Gandhi said.

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