Only a handful of seats remain to be filled in the
newly started Government College of Engineering in Srirangam in the
ongoing process of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission 2013 single-window
counselling.
The few remaining seats under the SC
and ST quotas are expected to be filled in a matter of days. The start
of the college announced by the Chief Minister Jayalalithaa only a few
months ago would start functioning temporarily from the campus of
Bharathidasan Institute of Technology (BIT).
A
committee had studied the facilities on the BIT campus for starting the
college with five branches: civil, computer science engineering,
electronics and communication engineering, electrical and electronics
engineering, and mechanical engineering. There will be an intake of 60
students per branch, official sources said.
But for
nearly 60 per cent of unfilled seats in CSE branch, the Government
College of Engineering in Thanjavur district, set to function
temporarily from Raja Higher Secondary School has been patronised well
by the students in the counselling process.
The main
reason for the overwhelming admissions in the newly started government
colleges of engineering is because the fee the students pay is much
lesser even compared to those admitted in constituent colleges of
university. The other government colleges of engineering are at
Coimbatore, Bargur, Dharmapuri, Tirunelveli, and Bodinayakanur.
Most
of the seats in the Bharathidasan Institute of Technology (BIT), one of
the five constituent colleges of the Anna University, Chennai, in
Tiruchi region, have been filled. But the seats in Mechanical and Civil
engineering branches under Tamil Medium have been filled so far only in
single digits. These two branches are being offered in Tamil medium
since 2010 in four other constituent colleges also: at Tirukuvalai in
Nagapattinam district, Panrutti in Cuddalore district, Pattukottai in
Thanjavur district and in Ariyalur district. These five constituent
colleges are under the jurisdiction of the Tiruchi regional centre of
the Anna University, Chennai.
With the inclusion of
the two newly started government colleges of engineering in Srirangam
and Thanjavur, and four self-financed colleges, the number of colleges
in the Tiruchi region has gone up to 101.
Of the
four private self-financed engineering colleges that would start
functioning from this academic year, two are in Ariyalur district and
one each in Nagapattinam and Perambalur districts. In 2012-13, seven
self-financed colleges were started in the Tiruchi region encompassing
Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Pudukottai, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Nagapattinam,
Tiruvarur and Cuddalore districts.
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