About 55,000 engineering seats, almost entirely in the self-financing institutions, are likely to go vacant at the end of the Anna University counselling process this year. This is despite the fact that the demand for the engineering stream has touched an unprecedented high this academic year.
According to officials at the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA), at the end of the general counselling sessions on Saturday, 1,20,712 of about 1.75 lakh seats under the government quota have been taken. Almost all seats in the government and government-aided colleges, with an exception of lone vacancy under the ST category, had been filled, indicating an overwhelming response to the government-run institutions. In the self-financing colleges, 54,402 seats were vacant at the end of the sessions on Saturday.
V Rhymend Uthariaraj, secretary TNEA, told Express that about 15,000 additional seats have been allotted in the process this year compared to the previous one. “There was an addition of about 30,000 seats. The numbers allotted have gone up by about 15,000 this year,” he said. The number of seats that went vacant in the last year’s counselling was about 44,000. The ratio of allotment between boys and girls, as per the data available on Saturday, was about 60:40. Mechanical engineering was the most sought-after course in the admissions, with 28,173 candidates opting for it. This was followed by Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), which registered intake of 26,572.
While the general counselling ended on Saturday, Uthariaraj said four more days of the process were left for those students who wrote class XII supplementary exams, second phase of vocational stream students and unfilled seats under the Scheduled Caste (Arunthathiyar) category which could be taken by willing SC candidates.
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