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| Thursday, July 19, 2007
Engineering admissions counselling begins
250 candidates appear on Day One
Chennai: Counselling for this year’s engineering admissions
through the single window system began here on Wednesday with
special quotas such as physically handicapped, sports, vocational
stream and other States taken up.
Starting off with the physically handicapped, the special quota
counselling will continue till Monday, after which general academic
counselling will commence.
A total of 250 candidates appeared for the counselling in batches
of 50.
D. Veeran of Ambur, a visually disabled student with a cut-off
mark of 195.25, was given the first allotment letter for an
Electronics and Communication Engineering seat at the College
of Engineering, Guindy, by Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy.
The other top six slots went to V. Sasireka, T.L. Lakshmi, R.
Saravanan, E. Bharathikumar, S. Chelladurai and K. Bhuvaneswari,
all of whom were allotted seats in Anna University’s constituent
colleges.
Counselling for vocational stream candidates will be held on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday and for other State candidates
on Sunday.
Mr. Ponmudy told reporters later that the Higher Education Secretary
had left for New Delhi to move the Supreme Court against the
Madras High Court’s verdict on seat sharing by private
engineering colleges.
“We will seek all legal options open to us [to ensure
that the previously-agreed seat sharing arrangement stays],”
he added.
Underscoring the State’s commitment to check capitation
fee in private engineering institutions, Mr. Ponmudy said the
Government would act even if just one parent came forward to
prefer an oral complaint.
“No plans for more colleges”
There were no plans to start more government engineering colleges
this year as admissions had already commenced, he said.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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