Engg. colleges in course correction mode: Minister
CHENNAI, JUNE 04, 2019 00:00 IST
Students have shown a preference for arts and science courses
Yet again, engineering admissions, through single- window counselling, will begin with nearly 40,000 seats going vacant.
For the 1,72,148 seats available in the State, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission Committee has received only 1,33,116 applications. On Monday, random numbers were assigned to all the applicants.
Higher Education Minister K.P. Anbalagan attributed the fall in applications to issuing them after the release of Plus Two results instead of the usual practice of issuing them prior to results.
Students had shown a marked preference for arts and science courses, he said, adding that colleges were now on course correction as they had accumulated seats earlier, anticipating a rush for engineering.
According to the Directorate of Technical Education officials, as many as 45,000 seats have been reduced, including 60 in government aided engineering colleges. A total of 15 colleges have decided not to admit students in the first year.
Mr. Anbalagan said the State would have 45 TNEA facilitation centres (TFCs), including three in Chennai, besides 42 in the districts. The three additional TFCs are in Chennai, including one each in Anna Centenary Library, B.M. Birla Planetarium campus in Kotturpuram and another one in Central Polytechnic College in Taramani. The additional centres were necessitated as more candidates had applied from Chennai, the Minister said.
Certificate verification
Candidates may approach the facilitation centres from June 7 to 12 on days assigned to them for certificate verification. The random numbers assigned to all applicants will help them in case of a tie.
If two candidates have the same marks in all the three core subjects — maths, physics, chemistry and the additional fourth subject, and if they also have the same date of birth then the random number helps to rank such candidates, said T. Purusothaman, a professor at the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, who is handling the TNEA 2019 admission process.
Last year, the random numbers helped to break the tie in 21 instances, he added. The 10-digit random number was arrived at with the Minister, Higher Education Secretary, DTE Commissioner, TNEA officials and two reporters, each coming up with two numbers.
These were fed into the computer using which random numbers were generated for all applicants.
CHENNAI, JUNE 04, 2019 00:00 IST
Students have shown a preference for arts and science courses
Yet again, engineering admissions, through single- window counselling, will begin with nearly 40,000 seats going vacant.
For the 1,72,148 seats available in the State, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission Committee has received only 1,33,116 applications. On Monday, random numbers were assigned to all the applicants.
Higher Education Minister K.P. Anbalagan attributed the fall in applications to issuing them after the release of Plus Two results instead of the usual practice of issuing them prior to results.
Students had shown a marked preference for arts and science courses, he said, adding that colleges were now on course correction as they had accumulated seats earlier, anticipating a rush for engineering.
According to the Directorate of Technical Education officials, as many as 45,000 seats have been reduced, including 60 in government aided engineering colleges. A total of 15 colleges have decided not to admit students in the first year.
Mr. Anbalagan said the State would have 45 TNEA facilitation centres (TFCs), including three in Chennai, besides 42 in the districts. The three additional TFCs are in Chennai, including one each in Anna Centenary Library, B.M. Birla Planetarium campus in Kotturpuram and another one in Central Polytechnic College in Taramani. The additional centres were necessitated as more candidates had applied from Chennai, the Minister said.
Certificate verification
Candidates may approach the facilitation centres from June 7 to 12 on days assigned to them for certificate verification. The random numbers assigned to all applicants will help them in case of a tie.
If two candidates have the same marks in all the three core subjects — maths, physics, chemistry and the additional fourth subject, and if they also have the same date of birth then the random number helps to rank such candidates, said T. Purusothaman, a professor at the Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, who is handling the TNEA 2019 admission process.
Last year, the random numbers helped to break the tie in 21 instances, he added. The 10-digit random number was arrived at with the Minister, Higher Education Secretary, DTE Commissioner, TNEA officials and two reporters, each coming up with two numbers.
These were fed into the computer using which random numbers were generated for all applicants.
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