TNEA counselling likely from June 1st week: Official

According to an official, the online registrations for the engineering admission is expected to begin from the last week of May 2019 while counselling is scheduled to commence from first week of June. 

Higher Education Minister KP Anbalagan, along with his department principal secretary Mangat Ram Sharma met Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and expressed an urgent need to announce the counselling schedule as he claimed that students have already started enquiring about the admission process. 

Sources from the Higher Education Department told DT Next on Saturday that since Anna University Vice Chancellor MK Surappa is refusing to cooperate with authorities regarding an amicable solution on how to hold counselling sessions in the institution, the government is planning to conduct the process in the Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE).

“The dates of the counselling will be announced in a day or two,” he added, saying that while manpower to conduct counselling will be generated in DOTE itself, technical support, including software, will be provided by Anna University for the smooth conduct of online counselling.

Seats will be allotted to all the participating colleges through online counselling based on marks scored in the Class 12 exam and no separate entrance exam will be conducted for UG admissions in engineering courses. 

The tug-of-war between the government and Anna University started after the Higher Education Department reconstituted the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) committee by appointing DOTE Commissioner R Vivekanandan as the co-chairman. 

Subsequently, Anna University VC Surappa resigned from TNEA claiming that the government failed to inform him about TNEA’s reconstitution. 

Accepting Surappa’s resignation, the government appointed Higher Education Principal Secretary Mangat Ram Sharma as TNEA chairman.