CHENNAI: As the second phase of counselling for undergraduate engineering admissions gets underway, it has been a no-show so far by 26 self-financing institutions which are yet to fill up a single seat even in the much-sought after circuit branches. Most of these institutions opened this year.

Also, none of the self-financing institutions has managed to fill all seats so far, according to an analysis by Salem-based analyst Jayaprakash Gandhi.

At the end of sixteen days of counselling, 33,993 seats are still available and students seem to be picking up more electronics and communications engineering and computer science seats, as compared to other branches.

Filled all seats

The first college to have filled all seats so far is Thyagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, a slot that went to the Madras Institute of Technology last year.

The Coimbatore Institute of Technology comes second, with only one seat yet to be filled.

Among self-financing institutions, Sri Siva Subramaniya Nadar College of Engineering near Chennai has only twelve seats to be filled.

As of now, all seats available under single window counselling have been filled in geoinformatics, agriculture and irrigation engineering, rubber and plastic technology, mining engineering, industrial biotechnology, mechanical engineering (sandwich course), pharmaceutical technology, printing technology and production engineering (sandwich course).

Not a single seat has so far been taken up in textile chemistry, rubber technology, petroleum engineering and paper and pulp technology.

Courses such as biotechnology, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering have not received any encouraging responses too from students.

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