Tamil Nadu: All-time excessive 2 lakh purposes for TNEA counselling | Chennai Information – Instances of India

CHENNAI: A renewed curiosity in engineering programs has pushed the variety of on-line purposes to engineering admissions counselling to an all-time excessive of two,11,905 this yr which is 36,945 or 21% extra in comparison with final yr.
They are going to be competing for round 1.4lakh seats beneath authorities quota within the counselling. Tier-1, tier-2 schools have already crammed their administration quota seats in computer-related programs. After the discharge of CBSE Class XII outcomes on July 22, round 20,000 candidates have utilized in simply 5 days.

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Profession consultants mentioned because of the demand of capitation payment by engineering schools college students have most well-liked admissions by engineering counselling. “Those that have joined BA, BSc final yr and the NEET repeaters have additionally utilized to counselling as a result of extra campus placements for engineering college students,” profession advisor Jayaprakash Gandhi mentioned.
“Attributable to extra demand for pc science programs, tier-1 and tier-2 schools are charging capitation which can be a motive for the rise in purposes,” he added.
B Chidambararajan, director of SRM Valliammai Engineering Faculty, mentioned, “This yr, administration quota admissions are nearing completion for pc science engineering, IT, AI and knowledge science, cyber safety, electronics and communication engineering as a result of good demand.” Some schools mentioned college students are even enrolling in core branches reminiscent of mechanical engineering beneath administration quota this yr.
“The demand for computer-related programs is similar as final yr. The brand new pattern is there are extra takers for core branches in comparison with final yr,” mentioned P Deiva Sundari, principal of KCG Faculty of Know-how.
As a result of delay in releasing the CBSE Class XII outcomes, TN prolonged the final date for submitting purposes from July 19 to July 27. The schedule for assigning random numbers, certificates verification and launch of rank checklist is prone to be revised. The federal government introduced that there won’t be any change within the begin of on-line counselling which is scheduled to start from August 22.
In the meantime, greater than three lakh college students have accomplished their purposes for one lakh seats in authorities arts and science schools.