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| Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Engineering counselling to start today
Chennai: Single window counselling for admission to engineering
colleges in the State is all set to commence on Wednesday, Anna
University Vice Chancellor D. Vishwanathan said here on Tuesday.
Counselling will begin at 10 a.m. on the Anna University campus.
On the first day, 262 candidates under the Physically Handicapped
quota have been invited for counselling. Candidates from the
vocational stream (2101) and those seeking admission under the
sports quota (205) will appear for single window counselling
on July 19, 20 and 21. Students from other States will be accommodated
in engineering colleges on June 22. General counselling will
begin on July 23. A total of 91,093 candidates have been cleared
under the last category. The last day of the counselling will
be dedicated to students who have taken the supplementary exams
and passed.
The total number of seats available in the engineering stream
this year is 1,06,000, of which 65,500 seats are under the government
quota, Dr. Vishwanathan said.
This year, an extra display screen has been arranged, and other
facilities for students and parents, such as drinking water
and toilets, have been provided.
There is a ban on distributing pamphlets in the halls where
the counselling is on. Action will be taken against those doing
so, Dr. Vishwanathan warned. In response to a question from
reporters about including 15 colleges that had been denied recognition
and then granted recognition by the AICTE in the present counselling
schedule, the Vice-Chancellor said they had not yet received
any communication from the AICTE in this regard.
However, if the colleges are able to prove that they have been
recognised, they would be incorporated as and when they come
into the counselling schedule, he said.
Recognition sought
Two new colleges have applied for recognition in the Chennai
region and if inspection of their infrastructure proves satisfactory,
they might be included at a later stage of counselling, he said.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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