Spurt in online registration for engineering seats in TN

If more than 6,000 students had enrolled online for engineering admission counselling on the day of the results, the numbers almost doubled on Thursday: as many as 10,1400 students registered online during the day, besides 891 who approached facilitation centres across the state to enrol themselves. 

Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) sources told DTNext that a total of 74,062 students have sought engineering admission as on Thursday. Of the total, 65,202 have enrolled themselves online and the rest used the facilitation centres set up in all the districts. 

The government has established 42 such engineering admissions facilitation centres to help rural aspirants who do not have access to internet facility.

The original certificate verification for all applicants will be done only at the facilitation centres. 

A booklet containing information about colleges would be provided to the applicants to prepare their choice list, and the centres would also screen videos demonstrating how to use the TNEA portal during the various stages of counselling. The online registration will conclude on May 30, after which the applicants would be grouped based on a merit list into rounds. 

Each group of applicants would be allowed into the counselling system roundwise. However, special counselling for students, like eminent sportspersons, differently-abled candidates, vocational and supplementary would be held in Chennai. 

Meanwhile, to the relief of students from the southern parts, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami issued orders to start UG courses in Anna University’s affiliated colleges in Madurai, Tirunelveli and Coimbatore from this academic year. This would create an additional 720 engineering seats.