T.N. likely to have 2.10 lakh BE/B Tech seats this year

‘434 engineering colleges to participate in TNEA single window counselling this year’

Though the number of engineering colleges have reduced compared to previous years, the number of BE/B Tech seats have increased as the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has sanctioned additional intake of students in certain branches such as CSE, IT and other emerging areas including artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cyber security, and Internet of things (IoT), among others.

Anna University Vice-Chancellor R. Velraj said the university had issued show cause notices to 18 private colleges, which suffered from academic and infrastructural deficiencies. Two institutions have responded to the notices. “This year, 18 colleges have been issued show cause notice as they were found to have deficiencies during inspection. If institutions return with details [on deficiencies and rectify them] we may give affiliation,” he said.

The deficiencies that the university’s inspection team pointed out include lack of faculty, infrastructure (laboratory and classrooms) and library facilities.

“The colleges have received the approval of AICTE but to be awarded affiliation, they must satisfy the university’s affiliation requirement. Some colleges do not have sufficient faculty. They were given time to revert after the first intimation was sent to them. After the second notice if the colleges do not satisfy the criteria as per law we can suspend the affiliation,” Mr. Velraj said.