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| Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Engineering rank list released
All those who have applied will get a seat, says Ponmudy
Chennai: The decks were cleared for this year’s engineering
admissions on Monday with Anna University releasing the rank
list, following the High Court’s go-ahead on the State
government’s order on surrender of seats by self-financing
institutions.
Six students, all from outside Chennai, share the top rank in
the list released by Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy.
Engineering counselling would begin as soon as the medical admissions
end. As many as 62,000 seats are available under government
quota in counselling, with 30,000 more seats available under
single window counselling for management quota seats.
The results will be available on Anna University’s website
on Tuesday.
"Do not offer capitation fee"
“A total of 94,960 applications were received, out of
which 90,803 were found to be eligible. It is almost certain
that all those who have applied will get seats, either under
the government quota or the management quota single window.
So, parents and students are requested not to offer capitation
fee for joining private institutions,” Mr. Ponmudy told
reporters.
P. Arvind of Erode, P. Praveen Kumar of Coimbatore, R. Nithyanandan
of Namakkal, M. Karthikeyan of Hosur, Jerin C Shekar of Kanyakumari
and Thahseen Nilofar of Ramanathapuram were the toppers who
had scored 200 marks out of 200 marks in all four main subjects.
“There is no need for any worry about cut-off marks as
all those who have applied will now get a seat. The only issue
is the choice of college and course. Around 22 self-financing
colleges have even come forward to surrender 100 per cent of
their seats to the government quota and we are expecting more
colleges to follow suit,” Mr. Ponmudy said.
The High Court’s upholding of the government order that
mandated non-minority institutions to surrender 65 per cent
of their seats and minority institutions 50 per cent to the
government quota was a vindication of the government’s
commitment to regulate capitation fees. “We are prepared
to meet the situation if the Consortium of Self-financing Professional,
Arts and Science Colleges — which had challenged the government’s
order in court — goes on appeal against the HC order,”
Mr. Ponmudy said.
Higher Education Secretary K. Ganesan and R. Sivakumar, Director
of Technical Education, were also present.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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