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| Thursday, April 24, 2008
1,200 more engineering seats likely
Chennai : About 1,200 more seats are likely to be on offer at
new government engineering colleges in the State in the coming
academic year, according to Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy.
Five new government engineering colleges are likely to be established
this year, he told reporters in Chennai on Wednesday.
This would be in addition to the six existing government engineering
colleges.
The Minister kicked off the engineering admission process, with
the announcement that application forms will be sold at various
places from May 10 to 26. The deadline for receipt of completed
forms at Anna University, Chennai, is 5:30 p.m. on May 26.
These are the forms for constituent colleges of all four Anna
Universities, all government and government-aided engineering
colleges and the government quota seats at self-financing engineering
colleges. The forms will be available on all four Anna University
campuses as well as at a number of government and aided engineering
colleges and polytechnics and government arts and science colleges.
The forms can also be posted from Anna University, Chennai,
or downloaded from the Internet.
Each form costs Rs. 500, though candidates of the Scheduled
Castes and Tribes can buy them at Rs. 250 apiece. Counselling
will take place at Anna University, Chennai. The candidate and
one accompanying person travelling to the counselling venue
can avail themselves of a 50 per cent concession in bus fare.
The Minister promised that students who completed vocational
courses would benefit from an increased quota in engineering
colleges this year. One hundred seats in government and aided
institutions and 4 per cent of the seats in self-financing institutions
would be reserved for them.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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