CHENNAI: The much awaited counselling for the students seeking engineering seats in Tamil Nadu will be held from July 22.
As per the original schedule, the counselling should have been held from July 2. However, due to delay in medical counselling, it was postponed without announcing any tentative date.
While releasing the engineering admission schedule, Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy on Thursday said that on July 22, the counselling will be held for the students belonging to special categories including differently abled, wards of ex-servicemen, sports quota and for the candidates, who studied in government school, availing 7% horizontal quota. "The counselling for the special category students will be held till July 26", he added.
He said the counselling for the students coming under general category will be held from July 28 to September 3. According to the minister, this year the engineering counselling will be held in three rounds.
It may be noted that the Directorate of Technical Education, a wing of the Higher Education Department, which conducts Tamil Nadu Engineering Counselling (TNEA-2023) had already released the merit list on June 26.
Accordingly, 1.78 lakh students were in the rank list.
Ponmudy pointed out that this year only three rounds of counselling for the engineering aspirants will be held against the earlier practice of four rounds.
"This due to All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) instructions, that the engineering admissions should have to be completed on or before September 15", he added.
He said students, who have secured rank between one and 22,261, will be participating in the first round of counselling and similarly, candidates, who got the rank from 22,762 to 87,049 will be attending the second round. "Likewise, applicants, who have secured rank between 87,050 to 1,76,744, will be coming for the third and final round," he said.
To a question, the minister said that this year two new courses in Electronics and Communication Engineering stream has been introduced in Anna University and its affiliated colleges.