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29 students attend counselling for admission to engineering courses

Staff Reporter

— Photo: M. Moorthy

CHOOSING THE COURSES: Counselling for the All- India Engineering Entrance Examination in progress at the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchi on Monday.

TIRUCHI: Twenty-nine students took part in the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination-2007 Central Counselling that began at the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi on Monday.

The first day was meant for students of the Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Tribe and Physically Handicapped categories. Call letters were sent to 56 students. In all, call letters were sent to 2,734 students — 2,350 for B.Tech and 384 for B.Arch — for the counselling that will end on July 12. The preferences of the students who attended today’s counselling will be processed and the branch allotment made tomorrow, said Dean (Academic) T. Balasubramaniam. On Tuesday, 253 SC students might attend the counselling.

This time around, the Institute expects a higher proportion of students from districts, other than Chennai, to join the courses.

Awareness programmes, which the Institute launched with the help of senior students in Tiruchi and neighbouring districts, could result in a gradual increase in the number of non-Chennai students securing seats. The awareness programmes would be intensified this year, Mr. Balasubramaniam said.

Till a few years ago, Chennai students wrested nearly 250 out of 265 seats that constitute Tamil Nadu’s 50 per cent quota.

The 265 seats comprise 15 for architecture; 20 for chemical engineering; 30 each for civil engineering, computer science & engineering, electronics & communication engineering, electrical & electronics engineering, instrumentation & control engineering, mechanical engineering and production engineering; and 20 for metallurgical engineering.

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