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| Saturday, June 28, 2008
Muslim students gain in engg admissions
Chennai: Muslim students will have a huge advantage in the single
window counselling process for admission to government quota
BE/BTech seats this year as 3.5% of the seats have been earmarked
for them by the state government for the first time in the history
of Tamil Nadu.
An analysis of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2008)
merit list reveals that Muslim candidates will move up the ladder
several fold during counselling. A key factor that will propel
their prospects of getting admission in a preferred course and
a good college is that the number of Muslim students is fewer
compared to that of backward class students from the Hindu and
Christian communities.
"The analysis reveals that a Hindu backward community student
with a cut-off aggregate of 196.5 is placed 3004th in the overall
rank list, with a BC rank of 1725. But in the case of a Muslim
student who has scored the same mark and overall rank, the community
ranking is 91. Going by this, a Muslim BC candidate will have
an advantage of 1 to 2 marks compared to his counterparts from
Hindu and Christian backward communities," says education
consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi. The number of Muslim candidates
who are in the fray is also less compared to other backward
class students.
Christian students will not get a similar advantage, but compared
to the Hindus they will stand to gain in the admission process.
Acknowledging that members of the Islamic community will stand
to benefit from the reservations, Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra
Kazhagam leader professor M H Jawahirullah said, "This
reservation will help students of our community to attain excellence
in higher education. This will also inspire many students in
the coming years to take up professional education." He
cautioned that during counselling, authorities must ensure that
Muslim students who have a high cut-off score must be given
admission under the open competition category. "Only students
who have a lesser score should be admitted under the Muslim
quota," he demanded
Meanwhile, the analysis has also thrown up startling information
on the high level of competition among aspirants this year.
"Last year, a candidate with a cut-off score off 195 was
ranked in the 27095th slot in the merit list. This year, a student
with the same score has fallen to 4831place. It indicates that
for every one mark lost by a candidate, he/she slip in the merit
list by 1400 slots. This would apply particularly for students
in the cut-off range of 183 to 191," Gandhi explained.
Courtesy: Times of India
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