Chennai: Tamil Nadu Engineering Colleges have more than 135000 seats available for BE and BTech courses offered in 41 disciplines for the ensuing academic session of 2009.
P Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University said that around 85000 seats will be allotted through counseling in the University. Total of 354 colleges that comprise of 333 self-financing colleges, 11 university colleges and 10 government and government aided colleges, would be a part of the counseling process.
Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) forms along with an information booklet would be made available for the aspiring candidates. Nearly 1.5 lakh forms would be distributed in 58 counters all over the state. He further mentioned that even though counseling date has not been finalized, the rankings would be ready by June 20 and counseling would commence after medical counseling.
The prospectus of 354 colleges is available online and students can obtain the forms at www.annauniv.edu/tnea2009 or through post or directly collect it from the counters setup by the university. The counters would remain open on all days from May 6, 2009 to May 30, 2009, except on May 12, May 13 (elections day), May 16 (counting day) and on Sundays, between 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The cost of the application form is Rs 500 for general and Rs 250 for SC/ST candidates. The payment can be made through cash or Demand Draft (DD) at the counters. In case of sending it through post an additional amount of Rs 200 should be added to it. A xerox copy of the community certificate should be brought at the time of admission in case of SC/ST candidates.
