Chennai
According to university registrar Prof S. Ganesan, the notification for issue of applications would be made on April 14 and engineering aspirants can start filing their application on the TNEA’s website from April 15.
Once the student has submitted his data, including marks scored, online, he needs to take a print-out of the application and send it to Anna University, Chennai, with a demand draft of Rs. 500 (open category candidates) and Rs. 250 (SC & ST) favouring “Secretary, Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions.”
Students who have difficulty in filing application online can approach Anna University’s 60 assistance centres across the state, where they would have computers with Internet facility and the staff to help them.
The last date for submission of application will be 10 days from the publication of Class 12 results. Officials say that doing away with the printed application form will help students avoid travel from their house to the university designated centre to buy the form and they can now file it from their place of residence.
Officials, including higher education secretary Apoorva, Anna University vice-chancellor Prof M.Rajaram, registrar Prof. S. Ganesan, director of technical education S. Madhumathi, TNEA Secretary Prof J.Indumathi and director of government examinations D Vasundra Devi held a meeting in the city on Tuesday to discuss modalities to be followed for TNEA.
SFI calls for polls in engineering colleges
Members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) submitted a memorandum to the Anna University authorities on Tuesday urging it to direct private engineering colleges in the state to conduct student body elections in their institutions.
V. Mariappan, Tamil Nadu state president of SFI, said the J.M. Lyngdoh Committee had recommended that higher educational institutions should conduct election to student bodies in their campus. SFI members have represented to the university to reduce revaluation fees for semester exams from the current Rs.700 per paper to Rs. 100-Rs.150 per paper.
“Students pay Rs. 700 for revaluation of every paper. Last year, the university collected a total of Rs. 31 crore as revaluation fee from students. It will be gratifying if the university fixes Rs.100 to Rs.150 as revaluation fee as students from the poorer sections of society cannot afford to pay Rs. 700 per paper,” he said. The students also feel that private engineering colleges should follow government rules.
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