On the first day of online registration for single window counselling for engineering courses in the State, as of 6 p.m., a total of 7,420 candidates had registered. Of these, 1,050 candidates had registered through Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission facilitation centres.
The Anna University has launched online counselling for the academic year 2018-19. University’s TNEA website had provided details of the entire process of registration. It has also set up 42 facilitation centres across the State, which will be monitored by the University officials.
In Kancheepuram, of the around 30 students who came to the facilitation centre at the University College of Engineering, only 17 were able to register successfully.
Most of them were unable to complete the process since they did not possess the facilities required for e-payment of the required fee. Some had not brought certain certificates to be uploaded on the website to get themselves included in the category to which they belonged, officials said.
Aspirants can complete the registration process well before the Class XII results by submitting their SSLC and Class XI examination marks. Aspirants’ Class XII scores would be accessed by the Anna University directly from the Department of School Education using the registration numbers provided by them in the application as soon as the results are announced. This would help avoid eleventh hour rush for registration, the officials added.
HC notice to varsity
Meanwhile, the Madras High Court has issued notices to Anna University and Secretary of the Higher Education Department on two PIL petitions seeking to quash online-only admission process to the university’s engineering courses.
