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Over 30,000 students in fix due to delayed 'Lateral Entry' counselling - 11-Jul-2012
Chennai: Despite classes for second year engineering students beginning since a month, counselling date for lateral entry is yet to announced.
As a result, over 30,000 students are in a state of confusion.
More than 550 Engineering colleges and 250 Polytechnic colleges are functioning in Tamil Nadu.
Students’ successfully completing polytechnic studies are eligible to join Engineering porgrammes directly to the second year through 'Lateral Entry'. Until last year, 10 per cent seats were allotted for lateral entry students. However, this allotment has been increased to 20 per cent.
Consequently, there are over 40,000 seats in the offer at the 550 odd Engineering colleges in Tami Nadu. Roughly, 30,000 students are expected to join through Govt. quota.
Even as the polytechnic results have been released long back, so far no official announcement has come out regarding the counselling date through lateral entry.
With classes for second year students have already commenced a month ago, students joining through lateral will have to take up classes along the with previous second year students after the counselling. By the time, semester exams would close in, forcing lateral entry students to perform poorly in the exams.
Hence, demand for swift conduct of 'lateral entry' counselling is rising.
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