TCS may hold online counselling for admissions to engg courses
A Ragu Raman TNN
Chennai:3.5.2019
In a first, the state government is likely to rope in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to conduct online counselling for admissions to engineering courses this year. The counselling, which will be held in two stages, will be monitored by the Directorate of Technical Education.
“The registration of application and certificate verification will be done through inhouse software. But, the government is likely to give the task of conducting online counselling to a vendor. The process is going on,” sources said. Officials from the higher education department said TCS is also under consideration.
As per the schedule, the online counselling will be held from July 3 to 28.
The online registration of applications began on a bright note with more than 15,000 candidates registering on Thursday. “Students continued to register throughout the day. The payment gateways also functioned smoothly,” officials said.
The last date for registering for online counselling is May 31.
“While most students submitted the applications from their own laptops and computers, some approached the facilitation centres put up at 42 places across TN,” officials added.
More than 15,000 students registered for counselling on Day 1
Officials expect more than 1.5L applicants
After registration, the students would receive confirmation mail and SMS for successful submission of applications. The officials are hoping that the number of applications would cross 1.5 lakh this year.
Anna University, which has conducted engineering counselling for the past 22 years, in 2018 introduced online counselling that passed off without any glitch, said officials.
This year, following differences over reconstitution of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee, M K Surappa, vice-chancellor of Anna University, resigned from the committee. After that, the government has designated Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE) to conduct the online counselling.
A Ragu Raman TNN
Chennai:3.5.2019
In a first, the state government is likely to rope in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to conduct online counselling for admissions to engineering courses this year. The counselling, which will be held in two stages, will be monitored by the Directorate of Technical Education.
“The registration of application and certificate verification will be done through inhouse software. But, the government is likely to give the task of conducting online counselling to a vendor. The process is going on,” sources said. Officials from the higher education department said TCS is also under consideration.
As per the schedule, the online counselling will be held from July 3 to 28.
The online registration of applications began on a bright note with more than 15,000 candidates registering on Thursday. “Students continued to register throughout the day. The payment gateways also functioned smoothly,” officials said.
The last date for registering for online counselling is May 31.
“While most students submitted the applications from their own laptops and computers, some approached the facilitation centres put up at 42 places across TN,” officials added.
More than 15,000 students registered for counselling on Day 1
Officials expect more than 1.5L applicants
After registration, the students would receive confirmation mail and SMS for successful submission of applications. The officials are hoping that the number of applications would cross 1.5 lakh this year.
Anna University, which has conducted engineering counselling for the past 22 years, in 2018 introduced online counselling that passed off without any glitch, said officials.
This year, following differences over reconstitution of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee, M K Surappa, vice-chancellor of Anna University, resigned from the committee. After that, the government has designated Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE) to conduct the online counselling.
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