Anna varsity sees less vacant seats
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With 1.8 lakh engineering aspirants submitting applications for the government’s single window counselling, Anna University expects less than 40,000 seats to go vacant this year as the state government had announced several schemes for students who would get admitted through government counselling.
Speaking to this newspaper on Wednesday, secretary of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA), Prof. V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, said that though 2,28,243 students had bought application forms from Anna University to attend the government’s single window counselling, only 1,80,061 candidates had submitted the forms.
“As students know that they will get all government benefits, including free laptops and first generation learner concessions, if they get admitted through the government’s single window counselling, the number has increased this year.
We have about 1.6 lakh seats in over 525 engineering colleges across the state and expect more seats to be added as and when the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) approves new engineering college in the state,” he said.
Pointing out that last year 40,000 seats had remained vacant, Prof. Uthariaraj said that he expected lesser seats to remain vacant this year.
Meanwhile several students have already booked seats in private engineering colleges as they are apprehensive about not getting a seat of their choice in a reputed private engineering college.
A college administrator said that there were about 50,000 seats in the management quota in private engineering colleges in the state.
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