| Saturday, May 05, 2007
Centralised counselling for TNEA 2007
Chennai: The single window counselling for admission to B.E/B.Tech
courses in 247 colleges across Tamil Nadu will be held only
in Chennai this year, Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy announced
in the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
Until last year, the State Government had adopted a distributed
counselling procedure as per which admissions were made in Chennai,
Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy.
The decision to conduct a centralised counselling is bound to
put thousands of aspirants and their parents to inconvenience
as those from down south will have to spend on the travel and
lodging in Chennai.
The Minister reasoned that the distributed counselling had resulted
in delays in updating information on the availability of seats
as different rank holders attended the counselling in four centres.
As a token concession, the Government has waived the Tamil Nadu
Engineering Admissions (TNEA) application fee from Rs 300 to
Rs 200 to foot the “transport bill”.
RANKING: Ponmudy contended that the procedure that will be adopted
for “normalising marks” scored by students in the
Plus Two CBSE and State Board examination will not affect the
rank list in a major way.
Last year the highest marks scored by students of CBSE and State
Board streams was the same in Mathematics and Physics. Only
in Biology, the highest mark in the CBSE stream was 99 as opposed
to 100 in the State Board.
Such minor variations will not swing the balance in favour of
either stream students. Besides, only 5,000 to 6,000 CBSE stream
students applied for the TNEA counselling.
Courtesy: New Indian Express
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