Engineering seats will not be vacant this year: Ponmudi
Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudi on Monday claimed that engineering seats will not be vacant this academic year as more students got admitted in the two-round of counselling compared to the previous year.
“During the first round of counselling of the students, seeking engineering admissions in the State, a total of 10,148 candidates secured the seats compared to previous year’s figure of about 7,000”, he said “similarly, in the second round of counselling, more than 20,000 students got provisional allotments, which is higher than last year’s figure of just about 13,000”.
He said still two rounds of counselling left, more students were expected to get allotments and therefore, there will not be any engineering seats vacant. “All the students, who have enrolled, will get seat allotments based on their cutoff marks and choice of their courses”, he said.
The minister also warned that strict action including cancellation of affiliation would be taken if any private college collect fees from the students, who secured engineering admissions in government school horizontal quota of 7%. “Licence to run the college will also be cancelled if it indulges in collecting fees from the students”, he added.
Ponmudi also pointed out that more than 5,000 students studied from government schools, who have availed the horizontal quota, got admissions in engineering colleges.