Applications for BE, B.Tech from May 1

CHENNAI: The upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections will not affect the engineering admission process as the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) committee is set to distribute application forms for the B.E. and B.Tech. courses from May 1. “We are in the process of finalising the dates for engineering admission schedule. Since this is an election year we will mostly stick to last year’s schedule for engineering admission process,” an official from TNEA said.

Elections for the TN assembly will be held on May 16 and counting on May 19. Last year, the applications forms were distributed from May 6 and the last date of issuing the applications were May 27. “Of the 60 application distribution centres in the state, some three or four centres will be counting centres. During the 2011 and 2014 elections, the process of application distributions was largely unaffected. Elections will be over well before the counseling process which will start mid-June,” he said.  

“We are planning to print over two lakh application forms this year. Students can also apply online for engineering admissions,” the official said. Each year around two lakh students join the engineering stream through single window counseling and the management quota. TNEA will conduct single window counseling for over two lakh seats available in government, government aided and private engineering colleges. Single window counseling will be held at Anna University’s Guindy campus.