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Tuesday, Aug 31, 2004

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Single-window counselling ends, 12,549 seats vacant

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, AUG. 30. The 20-day-long annual single-window system of counselling for engineering admissions conducted by Anna University concluded on Monday, with more than 12,500 seats remaining vacant.

All the vacancies were only in the unaided engineering colleges, while all seats in the Anna University, its constituent colleges as also the government and aided colleges getting filled up.

In all, 2,072 seats remained unfilled under the `open competition,' 3,546 under backward classes, 3,199 under most backward classes; 3,445 under scheduled castes and 287 under scheduled tribes categories, making a total of 12,549 seats.

When counselling began on August 10, over 40,300 seats were available under the single-window pool.

A glance at the vacancy position shows that the largest number of seats (6,722) were taken in the popular electronic and communication engineering branch. The other 2,083 seats remained unfilled out of the total of 8,805 seats.

At the end of counselling, 634 seats out of 1,759 in Civil Engineering were vacant. Similarly, 308 out of 656 seats in Chemical, 2,593 out of 7,844 Computer Science and Engineering, 2,341 out of 6,324 in Electrical and Electronics, 534 out of 1,348 in Electronics and Instrumentation, 2,475 out of 5,710 in Information Technology and 1,171 out of 4,244 in Mechanical Engineering branch were not filled during the counselling sessions.

The branches in which no seats were left included: Aeronautical, Automobile, Biomedical, Geo Informatics. Industrial Engineering, Leather Technology, Mining, Manufacturing, Metallurgical, Printing Technology, Rubber and Plastic Technology, according to Anna University.

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