CHENNAI: The Anna University will conduct the first online counselling for admitting students in BE, B.Tech courses in five rounds and in each round the students will get five days to fill and freeze their choices, according to sources in the higher education department.
The state government took a decision to conduct online counselling from next academic year after it was not able to fill the vacant seats arisen after medical counselling.
Due to Neet, the medical counselling was postponed this year and held after engineering counselling which has created more than 500 vacancies in Anna University’s four university departments alone.
In a little over six months, the Ramanujan Computing Centre at Anna University has prepared the software for conducting the online counselling.
The registration of application likely to begin before the declaration of plus-2 results. After the results, the students will be called for certificate verification. The process of seat allotment will begin following the certificate verification.
“It would be very simple and students can fill their choices of colleges and courses even from their home. There will be no upper limit for choices and students can fill any number of choices in online counselling,” sources added.
The students will get three days to fill their choices. After uploading the choices the system will allot tentative seats to students according to their ranks.
“Candidates will get two days to freeze their choices. Those who freeze their choices will be removed from the next round of counselling and the students who would like to participate in the further rounds will also be permitted,” sources revealed.
The candidates who do not freeze their seats will be given the top rank in the further rounds.
“The number of candidates will increase with each round. In the first round around top 10,000 rankers might be allowed and the number of students will be increased in each round,” they said.
Last year, 1,41,077 students applied for the engineering counselling. This year the medical counselling is expected to get over before engineering counselling. If there are any vacant seats arising out after second and third phases of medical and veterinary counselling, then the phase two counselling will be held. The students who had expressed interest to participate in the phase two counselling will be allowed to take part in it.
Each district will have at least one Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions Facilitation Centre (TFC) to help students with online counselling. In districts where there are more than five thousand applications, additional facilitation centres would be created.
The facilitation centres will be launched in a way where the students need not travel more than 60 km. Before the seat allocation, certificate verification for the engineering aspirants also will be conducted at these centres.
Candidates will also be provided with a detailed booklet with the information of all engineering colleges and courses when they attend the certificate verification.
