
Merit list for engineering aspirants in T.N. released, counselling to begin from July 22
The Hindu
Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2024 to conduct single-window counselling for 1.99 lakh candidates starting July 29.
As many 1.99 lakh candidates will participate in the single-window engineering counselling to be conducted by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2024 committee.
Counselling for general category students will commence on July 29, announced K. Veera Raghava Rao, Commissioner of the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE), who released the merit list on Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
Of the 2,53,954 candidates who had registered, a total of 1,99,868 candidates have been found eligible to participate in the counselling. Random numbers were generated for 2,09,645 candidates.
The commissioner said 1,97,601 are general category students and 2,267 others have sought for admission through the vocational stream. As many as 1,12,731 male, 87314 female and three transgender persons are in the fray.
Of the 36,532 students who applied under the 7.5% reservation for government school students, 32,223 were found eligible. These eligible include 31,788 male and 435 female students. There are two transgender students as well.
The committee has allotted time till July 18 for candidates to get their grievances redressed.
Counselling for special category students such as those with disabilities, wards of ex-servicemen and sports category under 7.5% reservation will be held on July 22 and 23. For special category students in the general category, counselling will be held from July 25 to 27.