| Tuesday, July 03, 2007
29 students attend counselling for admission to engineering courses
Tiruchi: Twenty-nine students took part in the All-India Engineering
Entrance Examination-2007 Central Counselling that began at
the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi on Monday.
The first day was meant for students of the Scheduled Tribe
and Scheduled Tribe and Physically Handicapped categories. Call
letters were sent to 56 students. In all, call letters were
sent to 2,734 students — 2,350 for B.Tech and 384 for
B.Arch — for the counselling that will end on July 12.
The preferences of the students who attended today’s counselling
will be processed and the branch allotment made tomorrow, said
Dean (Academic) T. Balasubramaniam. On Tuesday, 253 SC students
might attend the counselling.
This time around, the Institute expects a higher proportion
of students from districts, other than Chennai, to join the
courses.
Awareness programmes, which the Institute launched with the
help of senior students in Tiruchi and neighbouring districts,
could result in a gradual increase in the number of non-Chennai
students securing seats. The awareness programmes would be intensified
this year, Mr. Balasubramaniam said.
Till a few years ago, Chennai students wrested nearly 250 out
of 265 seats that constitute Tamil Nadu’s 50 per cent
quota.
The 265 seats comprise 15 for architecture; 20 for chemical
engineering; 30 each for civil engineering, computer science
& engineering, electronics & communication engineering,
electrical & electronics engineering, instrumentation &
control engineering, mechanical engineering and production engineering;
and 20 for metallurgical engineering.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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