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Students from outside the State go in for agricultural courses

Staff Reporter

Response to counselling sessions at TNAU very good, says Dean

COIMBATORE: : Students from several other States have opted for courses at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) under the all-India quota of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

"This year there were students seeking admission under the ICAR quota from Rajasthan, Bihar, Haryana, New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Kerala and Jharkhand," the Dean (Agriculture), R. Krishnasamy, told The Hindu .

There were 38 seats under the quota in B.Sc. Agriculture, B.Sc. Horticulture - 7, B.Sc. Forestry - 2, Agricultural Engineering - 5 and B.Sc. Home Science - 2 .

Candidates, who had completed their Plus Two and obtained a minimum mark, sat for the ICAR test which enabled them to join agriculture-related courses in other States, based on their ranking in the written examination.

Students from Tamil Nadu were yet to take full advantage of this opportunity to gain admission under the quota, to courses offered by institutions in other States. (Under the quota, students cannot opt for a course in their own State).

To make them competitive

"TNAU has attracted attention at the all-India level because of the standard of education and training. We have framed the syllabus in such a way that our students can do well in competitive examinations or even become entrepreneurs," he said.

Prof. Krishnasamy said that the response from students at the counselling sessions for admission this year had been "very good" for the self-supporting courses, with a rush for B.Tech. (Biotechnology) which seemed to be the preferred professional course after medicine.

In descending order of preference among the self-supporting courses were B.Tech. (Horticulture), B.Tech. (Food Processing Engineering) and B.Tech. (Energy and Environmental Engineering). Seats for the B.Sc. Forestry course had filled up rapidly, in keeping with the prevailing trend in the last few years.

It was popular among students because 30 to 40 per cent of those who passed out every year joined the Indian Forestry Service.

Using software developed on the campus itself, the university had been able to evolve a scientific system of counselling that took into account all the seat reservations under various categories, in accordance with the prescribed quotas.

"We have streamlined allotment of seats on the various TNAU campuses and there is no problem in the mode of admissions," he said.

The third phase of counselling for admissions to undergraduate programmes under the single-window system would be conducted on August 7, for B.Sc. Agriculture, B.Sc. Horticulture and B.Sc. Forestry, based on the biology cut-off mark.

Candidates could view the rank list and details of counselling at www.tnau.ac.in and www.tnautech.org, the official websites.

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