42 Engg. Colleges yet to get a single student

Updated on: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Chennai: In a most peculiar situation the number of BE / B.Tech seats in self-financing engineering colleges in the state overshooting the demand.

42 institutions are yet to attract a single student through the ongoing Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions academic stream counselling.

Likewise, no student from the academic stream had opted to join the information technology course in 197 colleges and the computer science-engineering course in 166 institutions as on Monday.

The first phase of counselling, which began on July 10, will end on Wednesday, while the second and final phase of the admission process for government quota seats will end on August 10.

With 68 new institutions starting admissions this year the number of self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu had already crossed 400.

'If you look at the admission data in the academic stream alone, which constitutes more than 95% of the eligible students, not a single aspirant had joined any course in 42 colleges as on Monday morning. On the other hand, if you include the students admitted under sports quota and vocational stream, physically disabled and other state categories, 24 engineering colleges are yet to attract students,' V Rhymend Uthariaraj, Secretary TNEA said.

This reveals that students have ignored institutions established by new entity in the field of technical education and colleges with a poor track record in examinations and placements. But, if not for the blind craze for the electronics and communications engineering and mechanical engineering courses in which students have joined without minding of the position of the institution, at least 100 colleges would have had no students for any course.

42 Engg. Colleges yet to get a single student

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