Tamil Nadu engineering counselling likely by end of June

Since 2018, DOTE had taken over conduct of online engineering counselling from Anna University, which had a spat with the Higher Education Department last year in connection with the appointment of members in the counselling committee.

 A senior DOTE official told DT Next that every year counselling starts in June last week and this year also the directorate is planning to follow the schedule since the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced that the engineering admissions should start in August.

 “Our team is equipped with more staff experts and academicians to handle the online counselling more efficiently,” he said adding more than 500 persons will be involved in the process.

 The official said more information centres have been set up in districts, manned by experienced staff, to help the applicants. Stating that the modified software could handle more two lakh applications, he said: “This year, online registration was made relatively easy for the students to submit details through web portal”.

Pointing out that elaborate arrangements have been planned to conduct counselling at Central Polytechnic College auditorium at Taramani in the city, the official said the whole process will take at least two months from receiving the online applications, random number generation, preparing the rank list, conducting multiple rounds of counselling for students and, preparing the final selected list. He said there would be a review meeting between DOTE authorities and officials from the Higher Education Department soon after the lifting of the lockdown period to decide on a tentative date for starting the engineering counselling.