The Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC), the nodal agency for admission to professional courses in the Union Territory on Friday released the rank list for medical, engineering and B. Pharm courses for the academic year 2015-16.
Releasing the rank list at his chamber in the Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister N. Rangasamy announced that the first phase of counselling for admission to professional courses would commence next week.
K.M. Anaswara, a student of Mahe, an enclave of the Union Territory in Kerala topped the merit list with 200 marks. Prajwal Krishna from Nettur near Thalassery and K. Amrutha Varshani of Lawspet in Puducherry bagged the second and third ranks respectively.
The top three ranks in the engineering stream were bagged by R. Srivatsan and N. Balaji of Puducherry and Prajwal Krishna of Mahe while the first three ranks in B. Pharm degree courses were bagged by R. Rajarajan and T. Yuvaraj of Puducherry and Arunima Rajesh of Mahe.
Of the total of 4,566 candidates who applied for biology-based courses, 4,469 were eligible while 5,126 students of the 5,201 students who applied for engineering courses qualified. Of the 2,082 candidates who applied for B. Pharm degree courses 2,031 students were found eligible.
Mr. Rangasamy said the sale of application forms for medicine had increased by 13.33 per cent this year while the forms sale for engineering dropped by 2.31 percent.
The sale of application forms for B. Pharm degree courses also increased by 12.10 per cent this year. The number of MBBS seats in the private medical colleges available under Government quota has been finalised at 273 seats for the current academic year.
Meanwhile, the Pondicherry State Students and Parents Welfare Association has demanded the Puducherry government to remove the one-year domicile criteria for employees of Central government and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) serving and posted in Puducherry.
V. Balasubramaniam, president of the Association said that the one-year domicile criteria in the admission guideline of CENTAC had resulted in a major chunk of seats available under government quota siphoned off by wards of central government employees from various states.
Students from Puducherry are facing a predicament since the number of seats available under the government quota is already minimal.
K.M. Anaswara, topped the list with 200 marks. Prajwal Krishna from Nettur near Thalassery and K. Amrutha Varshani of Lawspet bagged the second and third ranks respectively.
