TN urges AICTE to relax admission norms
Posted on: 16/Jun/2011 1:18:11 AM - No. of views : (2815)
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.
