The announcement of dates for engineering counselling on 21st July
Posted on: 19/Jul/2018 12:33:29 PM
As the Supreme Court has adjourned the enquiry regarding the request for the time extension for conducting the counselling for engineering courses, the dates for counseling for open category candidates has been changed to 21st July.
The counselling is conducted for the students to join the engineering courses in the 1.83 Lakhs seats available in the 509 engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University.
The single-window counselling session has been in progress for the special category candidates, Industrial Technology students, and sports specialists. For the common or open category candidates, the counselling will be online from this year.
As per the Supreme Court order, the counselling for engineering college admissions must be completed before 31st July and the classes must be commenced.
However, due to issues related to NEET, the cunselling for admission to medical courses has not been conducted so far. So, a request for time extensions has been made for the engineering counselling sessions for the general or open community candidates stands postponed.
In this situation, a request has been made for the time extension to conduct the counselling for engineering courses after the medical courses counselling is completed or after 21st July. A petition has been made on behalf of the state government of Tamil Nadu to the Supreme Court seeking extension of time to announce the dates for online counselling..
This came up for enquiry on 16th July and then was adjourned to yesterday (Wednesday, 18th July). With this case coming up for enquiry, the court ordered the Tamil Nadu State Government to provide additional details and adjourned the case tomorrow (20th July).
So, the Engineering Students Admission Committee has changed the announcement of dates for the online counselling for the general category students to 21st July.
The Tamil Nadu government had taken a decision to announce the exact dates for online counselling yesterday in case approval was given by the Supreme Court. However, since the case is adjourned, this announcement could not be made.
