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| Wednesday, Jul 12, 2006
Engineering counselling to begin on July 17
70,640 candidates will vie for more than 52,000 seats
Chennai: Single window counselling for admissions to BE/B.Tech programmes in State colleges will begin on July 17 for the `special reservation for Sports and Physically challenged' category, and July 21 for academic (general) category.
In all 70,640 candidates are expected to participate. The counselling will end on August 21, according to the tentative schedule released on Tuesday by Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi.
It would be held on Anna University campus in Chennai, National Institute of Technology campus in Tiruchi; Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, and Government College of Technology, Coimbatore.
Over 52,000 seats
Mr. Ponmudi said the single window pool would have more than 52,000 seats. On the first four days, candidates coming under special reservation, including Sports, children of ex-servicemen and wards of freedom fighters, physically challenged category, vocational stream and `Other State' categories would undergo counselling.
The special reservation quota has 81 seats, and the other State candidates category, 52 seats. Three per cent of the overall pool would come under the `physically challenged' category.
Answering questions from reporters, Mr. Ponmudi said the government was considering a proposal to hold the counselling in one centre (instead of the present four) for administrative convenience.
"It is good for the candidates that it reduces commutation cost and time, but administratively it has problems."
When pointed out that Kerala had begun a system of online counselling where students sit in front of a computer and get allotment over the Internet, Mr. Ponmudi said if the system proved successful in Kerala, it could be considered for implementation here.
Replying to another question, Mr. Ponmudi said a committee headed by academic M. Anandakrishnan had been constituted to suggest ways for tiding over legal hitches in implementing the government decision to scrap entrance examinations for professional courses.
"Already there is a political consensus that the entrance examinations should be done away with." The government would table a Bill in the Assembly suggesting ways for admissions to management quota seats in private colleges. "There we are looking at whether a separate examination is needed for management quota."
Courtesy: The Hindu
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