Chennai-Admission barred in 3 engineering colleges

Source :TNN, May 6, 2010, 03.04am IST

CHENNAI: Admission of students has been barred in three self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu this year.

"We have decided to bar admission of students in the PMR Institute of Technology, the J A Institute of Engineering and Technology and the GGR College of Engineering. Consequently, these colleges have not been included under the single window counselling for filling up BE/BTech seats under the government quota for 2010," Anna University (Chennai) vice chancellor P Mannar Jawahar told journalists on Monday.

All the three institutions were found to be lacking in basic infrastructure and there were complaints from students about their functioning. While the PMR Institute and J A Institute are located in Adayalampattu and Koyambedu respectively in Chennai, the GGR College in functioning in Vellore.

Incidentally, the CBI too had last year conducted raids at the PMR Institute and J A Institute in the backdrop of the arrest of top All India Council for Technical Education officials in New Delhi.

The Anna University has also partially barred admission in the VKK Vijayan Engineering College in Irungattukottai, which too had come under the CBI scanner. The college can now admit students only to the BE Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) courses this year.

Meanwhile, more than 57,500 applications for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) were sold on Monday, when the process of issuing application forms began across the state.

"As on date, 1,08,025 BE/BTech seats are available under the government quota for filling up through the single window counselling. Of this, 5,920 seats would be available in the Anna Universities and its 16 constituent colleges, 2825 seats in government engineering colleges and 1544 seats in government-aided engineering colleges," Jawahar announced.

This seat matrix will go up before the single window counselling begins on June 28 with the likely entry of around 50 new private engineering colleges.

"We are yet to receive the copy of the order delivered by the Madras high court in connection with the petition challenging the new approval process for engineering colleges prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). We will process the applications for establishing new colleges only after we receive the order. Thereafter, the process including inspection of institutions will be completed in 15 to 20 days," Jawahar, who is also chairman of the AICTE southern region said.