Anna University Vice-Chancellor M.K. Surappa and Higher Education Secretary Sunil Paliwal on Tuesday denied allegations that the premier institution had fudged student admission records.
Referring to media reports about discrepancies in admission of students based on documents provided under Right to Information Act, the officials told journalists that the figures pertained only to admissions made under the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission process. The RTI data did not include the names of students who had been admitted under various quotas.
“All the students in the 3rd semester were there at the end of the second semester also,” said Mr. Surappa.
He said the 39 candidates in the ECE department who did not figure in the list furnished under the RTI Act, were those who had been admitted under categories such as wards of NRI, wards of employees in gulf countries, foreign students and industry-sponsored candidates.
The ECE department has sanctioned intake for 180 seats of which 158 were surrendered to counselling.
All those who were in the second semester were also in the third semester in the mining department, Mr. Surappa said.
