MCA counselling begins at Government College of Technology

Updated on: Wednesday, July 27, 2011

As many as 451 out of the 638 who attended the first day general counselling of the Tamil Nadu MCA Counselling got admitted into colleges of their choice.

Counselling under the single window system for admission to MCA degree courses offered in government, government-aided, and self-financing engineering and arts and science colleges of Tamil Nadu for 2011-12 began here at the Government College of Technology, on Monday.

Though the highest TANCET score for the day was 68.00, it was the fourth rank holder with 56.25 who received the first allotment letter as the first three rank holders were absent.

G. Packiyalakshmi from Theni got the provisional admission into PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. She received the allotment letter from R. Krishnaswami, Regional Manager, State Bank of India, Coimbatore, in the presence of R. Sundararajan, Secretary of Tamil Nadu MBA / MCA Admissions 2011, and Pankaja Valli, Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education, Coimbatore.

A gold medalist in B.Sc. Mathematics, Packiyalakshmi completed her degree through correspondence from the Madurai Kamaraj University. Due to family circumstances, she was working as a teacher while studying the degree programme. She believes that the post-graduate degree would fulfil her aim of pursuing a career in the software industry.

Sixth rank holder from Coimbatore, B. Revathy, with a TANCET score of 54.5 got the second allotment letter for admission into PSG College of Technology. Ms. Revathy was elated about going back to her alma mater where she completed B.Sc. in computer technology. K. Sivaram from Palayamkottai, the seventh rank holder with a TANCET score of 53.25, received the third allotment letter for admission into PSG College of Technology. There are a total of 11,014 candidates appearing for the counselling which will go on till August 8. It began at 8 a.m. and was held in five batches. There were 10 terminals where candidates could sit with their parents and choose the college. A large screen was flashing the latest position in the colleges. According to Mr. Sundararajan, though the number of candidates attending counselling this year was 2,000 more compared to last year's 9,000, it was still less because there were more seats and less takers just like in engineering.

There were 8,544 seats in 193 engineering colleges, and as many as 3,536 seats in 133 arts and science colleges, with the total of 12,080 seats up for grabs.

Co-ordinator of the Admissions M. Natarajan said that only 60 out of the 108 who were called for the first session attended and at the end of the day, after five sessions, there were a total of 187 absentees.

On Sunday, a separate counselling was held for the physically challenged where 29 candidates attended. Here too, though there were more than 200 seats allotted under the three per cent disability quota, there were only 23 orthopaedically challenged, two visually challenged, and four with hearing disability who attended the counselling. The seats which did not get filled under the physically challenged quota would be added to the general category.

MCA counselling begins at Government College of Technology

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