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| Friday, Jul 07, 2006
Engineering seats matrix in for change
Government facilitates surrender of 13,205 additional seats
- Total seats available under SWS will go up to 52,338 from 39,133 last year
- Government has fixed a fee of Rs. 32,500 per year for each seat
- List of colleges surrendering more than 65 per cent seats to be released
- Bill on new admission policy to be introduced in next Assembly session
- Number of vacant seats is likely to touch 17,500 this academic year
- Total seats available under SWS will go up to 52,338 from 39,133 last year
- Government has fixed a fee of Rs. 32,500 per year each seat
- List of colleges surrendering more than 65 per cent seats to be released
- Bill on new admission policy to be introduced in next Assembly session
- Number of vacant seats is likely to touch 17,500 this academic year
Chennai: The matrix of seats available for undergraduate engineering
courses this year will undergo major change, with the State
Government facilitating the surrender of 13,205 additional seats
by self-financing engineering colleges to the single window
system (SWS) of counselling.
A total of 52,338 seats will be available under the SWS compared to last year's 39,133.
While the minority self-financing institutions will surrender 50 per of their seats to the Government pool, the non-minority ones will give up 65 per cent, Minister for Higher Education K. Ponmudi, told reporters here on Thursday. The increase would benefit poor students from rural areas.
While the minority self-financing institutions will surrender 13,677 seats, the non-minority ones will give up 33,516. Last year the figures were 8,206 seats (30 per cent) and 25,782 seats (50 per cent).
This year, the minority institutions will surrender an additional 5,471 seats and non-minority institutions, 7,734 seats.
Of the 52,000-odd seats available this year, 5,145 will be from Anna University constituent colleges, Government colleges and Government-aided colleges.
NRI seats
Of the 35 per cent seats the non-minority institutions can fill on their own, 15 per cent will be made available for NRIs. The rest will be filled up as per Government reservation norms. The Government has fixed a fee of Rs. 32,500 per per year for the seats. Colleges charging in excess can be brought to the notice of the authorities, Mr. Ponmudi said.
The list of colleges that had offered to surrender more than 65 per cent will be released soon. The admission process will be speeded up from the next academic year to enable the rank list to be published within a fortnight of conducting the common entrance test. Bill on the new admission policy will be introduced in the next Assembly session, Mr. Ponmudi said.
Cut-off mark
The changed equation, educational experts say, may result in a reduction in cut-off mark in less preferred government colleges. In top-rung self-financing institutions, the cut-off marks may come down by 1.5 to 2 marks for OC and BC students, Salem-based educational analyst Jayaprakash Gandhi told The Hindu . While the MBC category will see a reduction of 5 to 7 cut-off marks, in the SC/ST category, it may be 8 to10 marks.
While the cut-off will remain unchanged for the much-preferred circuit branches such as Electronics and Communication Engineering, IT and Electrical and Electronics Engineering, in non-circuit branches such as civil, mechanical and automobile engineering in top self-financing colleges, the cut-off may come down by around 3 to 5 marks.
As per the earlier matrix in top private institutions, the cut-off is expected to come down by three marks in the 270 plus range; six marks in the 260 range and eight marks in the 250 range, Mr. Gandhi says.
The larger number of seats may also mean more vacancies. As many as 11,000 seatsremained vacant last year. This academic year, this is likely to touch 17,500, mostly in non-circuit branches under the reserved categories.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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