Chennai: Counselling for this year’s engineering admissions through the single window system began here on Wednesday with special quotas such as physically handicapped, sports, vocational stream and other States taken up.
Starting off with the physically handicapped, the special quota counselling will continue till Monday, after which general academic counselling will commence.
A total of 250 candidates appeared for the counselling in batches of 50.
D. Veeran of Ambur, a visually disabled student with a cut-off mark of 195.25, was given the first allotment letter for an Electronics and Communication Engineering seat at the College of Engineering, Guindy, by Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy.
The other top six slots went to V. Sasireka, T.L. Lakshmi, R. Saravanan, E. Bharathikumar, S. Chelladurai and K. Bhuvaneswari, all of whom were allotted seats in Anna University’s constituent colleges.
Counselling for vocational stream candidates will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and for other State candidates on Sunday.
Mr. Ponmudy told reporters later that the Higher Education Secretary had left for New Delhi to move the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court’s verdict on seat sharing by private engineering colleges.
“We will seek all legal options open to us [to ensure that the previously-agreed seat sharing arrangement stays],” he added.
Underscoring the State’s commitment to check capitation fee in private engineering institutions, Mr. Ponmudy said the Government would act even if just one parent came forward to prefer an oral complaint.
“No plans for more colleges”
There were no plans to start more government engineering colleges this year as admissions had already commenced, he said.
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