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Colleges surrender seats as TNPCEE panel meets

By K. Ramachandran

CHENNAI April 1. The coordination committee of the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examinations 2003 met at the Anna University on Tuesday to chalk out a programme for admissions even as colleges surrendered chunks of seats for the single window system.

The TNCPEE 2003 will be held on April 12 and 13 at more than 200 centres. Over 1.4 lakh students have registered themselves for the examinations: 1,35602 for physical sciences, 1,22,640 for mathematics and 77,692 for biological sciences, besides over 200 students from the `vocational stream'.

The coordination committee includes the Vice-Chancellors of the Anna, Agriculture, Veterinary and the Madurai Kamaraj universities, and the Directors of Technical Education, Collegiate Education , Medical Education, School Education and Government Examinations, besides individual members such as the educationist, S.V. Chittibabu.

Meanwhile, the deadline for colleges surrendering any of the `management' quota seats to the unified SWS admissions pool passed on Tuesday. As per present indications, of the 70,000 engineering seats, about 40,000 will be filled by the managements themselves, as per a formula worked out by the State Government this year.

As per the policy announcement, unaided-minority institutions should fill 70 per cent of their sanctioned strength by themselves and 30 per cent through the SWS; and the unaided non-minority institutions, 50 per cent by themselves and 50 per cent through the SWS.

However, the Government said the colleges which wished to surrender more seats for the SWS quota could do so till March 31. According to university officials, 70 per cent of the colleges have come forward to surrender more than their prescribed quota. This would essentially mean that more than 35,000 seats could form part of the SWS.

However, a clearer picture would emerge only later this week, said a university spokesman. Also, the issue of affiliation of new institutions remained to be resolved.

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