TN urges AICTE to relax admission norms
As the engineering admission season draws closer, the Tamil Nadu Government has written to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to permit it to admit students to BE/BTech courses on the basis of reduced eligibility norms.
Recently, the AICTE had stipulated that only students who had scored a minimum aggregate of 50% marks in Math, Physics and Chemistry/Biotechnology/Biology in Plus Two board examinations can join engineering colleges. In the case of SC/ST students, the eligibility mark is 45%.
Whereas, in Tamil Nadu during the previous DMK regime itself the minimum eligibility marks for admission into engineering colleges was reduced to 50% for Open Competition (OC), 45% for BC, 40% for MBC and 35% for SC/ST candidates.
In this backdrop, it is reliably learnt that the State Chief Secretary Debendranath Sarangi has written a letter to the AICTE seeking permission to allow the admissions to be carried out on the basis of the reduced eligibility norms.
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