Engineering enrolment crosses 50,000 mark in Tamil Nadu

The enrolment for engineering admissions in Anna University and affiliated colleges began on May 5. As many as 8,668 students have registered online. 

In less than a week after registration for the students seeking engineering seats in Tamil Nadu started, the number of online enrolment has crossed 50,000 so far, dtnext reported.  The enrolment for engineering admissions in Anna University and its affiliated colleges began on May 5 with on the day one, as many as 8,668 students have registered themselves online. 

This year also, the Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE), a wing of the higher education department, has announced that TN engineering admissions is a complete online process, including registration, payments, choice filling, allotment and confirmation. 

Additional Director of Higher Education Department and Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA-2022) in-charge T Purushothaman said till May 9 at 6 pm, the total number of applications was 51,386 with 6,345 students have paid the registration fees and also uploaded their certificates as per the requirement. 

DoTE sources further said like last year, all higher secondary schools were instructed to provide help to the students in enrolling in engineering courses. A senior official from DoTE said, similarly, for the students, who do not have access to internet connection over 100 student facilitation centres and Chennai alone 11 centres were established across the state where the students could register themselves at free of cost. Stating that last year 2.71 lakh students were registered for engineering admissions, the official said this year the total number of applications is expected to cross over 3 lakh. 

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