Centralized Counselling for BE / B Tech Admission

Counselling Fee for Engineering Admission Waived

Centralized Counselling for BE / B Tech Admission

Chennai: The single window counselling for admission to BE / 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 adopted a distributed counselling procedure, as per which admissions were made in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy.

The decision to conduct a centralized 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 to Chennai and lodging there.

The Minister said the distributed counselling had resulted in delays in updating information on the availability of seats as different rank holders attended the counselling at four centres.

As a token concession, the government has waived the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) application fee from Rs.300 to Rs.200 to foot the “transport bill”. RANKING: Ponmudy contended that the procedure to be adopted for “normalizing marks” scored by students in the Plus Two CBSE and State Board examinations will not affect the rank list in a major way.

Last year the highest marks scored by students of CBSE and State Board streams were 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.

The Government has waived the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) application fee from Rs.300 to Rs.200 to foot the transport bill’

Centralized Counselling for BE / B Tech Admission

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