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Counselling for Engineering courses complete - no students for 16 colleges!
Posted on: 29/Jul/2019 2:15:46 PM
With the conclusion of the counselling sessions for admissions to the engineering colleges on Sunday, 28th July, it has been found that not even a single student opted to join 16 engineering colleges!
Further, it is found that there are only 13 engineering colleges where all the seats available (100%) got filled.
The Directorate of Technical Education conducted the counselling session for the applicants pursuing to join engineering courses for the 1.71 Lakhs seats available for B. E. Courses in the 479 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu.
The 1st Phase of the counselling was conducted for the candidates belonging to the special categories. Subsequently, the counselling sessions for the candidates in the general category was conducted in 4 rounds commenced on 3rd July. When the counselling commenced, there were 167101 seats available for admission.
The last and 4th round of counselling concluded yesterday, Sunday, 28th July. The final quota allotted for the students were also given.
With the conclusion of the counselling for the general category, only 76364 seats got filled out of the available 167101 seats. Thus, 90727 seats remained unfilled.
Not even a single candidate joined 16 of the engineering colleges. At the conclusion of the counselling for admission to the engineering courses, out of the 479 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu, all the available seats (100%) got filled only in 13 engineering colleges in the state including 2 self-financed engineering colleges.
More than 50% of seats got filled only in 157 engineering colleges. Thus, the other engineering colleges had only less than 50% of the seats available getting filled up. Further, there 82 engineering colleges in this category where less than 10% of the available setas got filled!
There are 44 engineering colleges with only less than 5% of seats filled up! As mentioned earlier, not even a single seat was taken up in 16 engineering colleges!
Substantial reduction in Mechanical Engineering faculty
There has been a steep reduction in the number of candidates opting for mechanical engineering faculty as compared to the previous year.
There have been substantial reductions in the number of students opting for civil, electrical, electronics, aeronautical and instrumentation engineering faculties.
On the other hand, there has been a good increase in the number of candidates opting for the faculties of Computer Science, telecommunication Engineering and Information Technology.
Functioning of 110 colleges rendered difficult
With the above trend and statistics, the educationists observe that it would be extremely difficult for 110 engineering colleges to continue functioning where there has been a huge reduction in the number of students joining. Further, there has been a very steep reduction in the number of candidates opting for the faculty of mechanical engineering.
Thus, the academicians observe that there are prospects where the professors/lecturers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are likely to lose their jobs.
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