1.6L Seats Up For Grabs, Online Counselling From Oct 1-30
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 29.09.2020
Sasmitha M S of Coimbatore got the highest cut-off marks in the state at 199.67 in the engineering rank list released on Monday, with centums in maths, physics and near-perfect marks in chemistry. R Navaneethakrishnan of Tiruvannamalai, with the same cut-off, was placed second rank, while R Kavya, C Aditya and Praveen Kumar R with 199.5 were ranked third, fourth and fifth. Higher education minister K P Anbalagan released the list.
Sasmitha said she planned to take up BE computer science at College of Engineering, Guindy. “I then want to get placed in a dream company such as Facebook or Amazon, experience the work ambience for a few years, come back and take up civil services.”
The native of Namakkal, allotted the cut-off by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) based on the 989/1000 marks in the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education at Hyderabad, now stays in Coimbatore with her uncle, a forest official. She wanted to join an IIT, but unsure of the scores in JEE (Advanced), decided on Anna University.
Praveen Kumar wants to join either electrical engineering or computer science at Anna University.
The TNEA committee awarded ranks to 1,12,406 eligible candidates, using a 10-digit random number for breaking ties for 791 candidates.
Anbalagan said online counseling will be held from October 1 to 30 — for special category from October 1 to 5 and for general category from October 8 to 27.
There are 1,63,154 seats available in 461 colleges, a reduction of just 9,786 seats over last year despite the number of participating colleges coming down to 461 from 479 in 2019-20. Colleges surrendered 27,466 seats, increasing total seats to 1.63 lakh from 1.35 lakh.
On the proposal to change the name of Anna University, the minister said it was made after keeping the interests of all students and colleges in mind. He further said the state government would discuss any implication of name change before the bifurcation.
On reopening of colleges, the minister said the state government would take a call only after assessing the number of colleges needed for Covid-19 care centres. “Still, many colleges are functioning as such centres. We will assess the situation and take a decision,” he said.
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