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Counselling begins at varsity

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TAMBARAM: Counselling for filling up nearly 2,500 seats in different courses offered by SRM University began on Friday.

Speaking at a function in the private university campus in Kattankulathur, near Chennai, its Chancellor T.R. Pachamuthu said that they had increased the scholarship amount to Rs. 9 crore this year from Rs. 6.5 crore last year for meritorious students under the university founder’s scholarship and university scholarship programmes.

Under this scheme, 20 toppers of the SRM Engineering Entrance Examination would be given a free B. Tech course for the full term of four years with the subject of their choice. In addition to Rs. 2 crore offered as scholarship, students would also receive Rs. 1,000 as monthly stipend.

Mr. Pachamuthu handed over offer letters to four of the 20 toppers. The four students – V. Manoj, R. Teja, Y. Harish and Surendra Reddy – belong to Andhra Pradesh. Apart from this, 77 seats would be given under sports quota, of which 25 would be for B. Tech, 22 for MBA and the rest for science and humanities.

He said that all the toppers from 32 districts of Tamil Nadu and five students from poor families would be given free education. Among other concessions extended to students, 200 students, who had secured 95 per cent marks in higher secondary exams of the State Board or 90 per cent marks in CBSE, would be offered a 50 per cent waiver in tuition fee.

P. Sathyanarayanan, Vice-Chancellor, said that from the current academic year the university would be introducing undergraduate courses in nano-technology, infrastructural engineering, nuclear engineering, architectural engineering and fashion technology.

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