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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Chennai: In the wee hours of Wednesday more than 150 parents and students descended on the campus of the Anna University (Chennai) eager to buy the application form for the 2009 season of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA). By 9 am, more than 6,000 applications were sold on the opening day indicating that parents and students are anxious to get a BE/B.Tech seat this year too
Over the past few years, it has been observed that the general trend among anxious parents is that many of them do not wait for the Single Window Counselling for filling up government quota seats to end, before knocking at the doors of administrative offices of self-financing engineering colleges for a seat. In their anxiety they do not attend their turn at the counselling session and instead end up booking a seat under the management quota by paying a few lakh rupees as donation and higher fees.
However, going by the number of seats that are likely to be on offer this year it would be better for parents and students to join an engineering college through the counselling conducted by the Anna University (Chennai). In the current admission season, approximately one lakh BE/B.Tech seats are expected to be available under the government quota alone as more than 140 applications for establishing new engineering colleges are pending before the All India Council for Technical Education.
Also, this year many parents may not opt for the circuit branches like Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology under the assumption that the prevailing slump in the IT industry would last forever. Educationists have, nonetheless, been advising students not to ignore the circuit branches on this ground alone as four years hence when they graduate from colleges the industry could be on a rebound and job prospects too would be fairly good.
If the parents are willing to wait, they can get a seat for their children in a college by paying less than Rs 50,000 per annum.
Analysts say that in this context, it would be worthwhile to look at the admission statistics of 2008-09. Last year, cumulatively 1,31,680 BE/B.Tech seats were available in the 344 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu. These included both government quota and management quota seats in self-financing engineering colleges.
However, figures sourced from the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE) revealed that eventually when admissions had drawn to a close as many as 13,115 seats remained unfilled in the government, government- aided and private unaided engineering colleges. Significantly, 13,100 of these vacant seats were in the self-financing colleges alone.
Against such a backdrop, this year the number of vacancies in private colleges is bound to be higher as a result of which a seat is assured for every aspirant under the government quota itself. Therefore, a wait and watch policy on the part of parents and especially below average students will turn out to be a prudent decision.
Engg seat assured for all eligible aspirants in TN
Chennai: In the wee hours of Wednesday more than 150 parents and students descended on the campus of the Anna University (Chennai) eager to buy the application form for the 2009 season of the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA). By 9 am, more than 6,000 applications were sold on the opening day indicating that parents and students are anxious to get a BE/B.Tech seat this year too
Over the past few years, it has been observed that the general trend among anxious parents is that many of them do not wait for the Single Window Counselling for filling up government quota seats to end, before knocking at the doors of administrative offices of self-financing engineering colleges for a seat. In their anxiety they do not attend their turn at the counselling session and instead end up booking a seat under the management quota by paying a few lakh rupees as donation and higher fees.
Also, this year many parents may not opt for the circuit branches like Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology under the assumption that the prevailing slump in the IT industry would last forever. Educationists have, nonetheless, been advising students not to ignore the circuit branches on this ground alone as four years hence when they graduate from colleges the industry could be on a rebound and job prospects too would be fairly good.
If the parents are willing to wait, they can get a seat for their children in a college by paying less than Rs 50,000 per annum.
Analysts say that in this context, it would be worthwhile to look at the admission statistics of 2008-09. Last year, cumulatively 1,31,680 BE/B.Tech seats were available in the 344 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu. These included both government quota and management quota seats in self-financing engineering colleges.
However, figures sourced from the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE) revealed that eventually when admissions had drawn to a close as many as 13,115 seats remained unfilled in the government, government- aided and private unaided engineering colleges. Significantly, 13,100 of these vacant seats were in the self-financing colleges alone.
Against such a backdrop, this year the number of vacancies in private colleges is bound to be higher as a result of which a seat is assured for every aspirant under the government quota itself. Therefore, a wait and watch policy on the part of parents and especially below average students will turn out to be a prudent decision.
Courtesy: Times of India
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