"Out of the 1,380 seats on offer, almost 100 seats have filled with students, who scored a cut off of 180 and above. Going by that rate, I'm sure that all the seats will be filled up by students with a cut off of 150 and above. In fact there has been a demand to allow self-financing colleges to start courses in Tamil, for which the AICTE's approval is required. If the approval is given, then the university will fully support them," Ponmudy assured.
The minister also went on to assert how students could write their exams in Tamil and English irrespective of their medium of instruction.
"We will try to introduce more courses in Tamil in the next academic year in a phased manner if the response this time is great," he added.
Detailing how 41 bogus marksheets and nativity certificates were detected by the Anna University, he said, "The system cannot be cheated as the university gets a copy of all Plus Two results directly from the government department and marksheets submitted by students is verified against that. In one case, the tahsildar has given the same file number to a candidate for the three certificates he got. Revenue officials are now looking into the issue and once forgery is confirmed police action will follow."
The minister warned outstation students against submitting fake nativity certificates.
"Parents and students of first generation are requested to take their time and produce the correct nativity certificate," he appealed.
Informing that more seats might be added to existing 'good colleges' as the approval for same was under consideration and once cleared these seats would be offered through a supplementary counseling process, said, "In that case, students who have already taken a seat and want to change it can do so."
Almost 8,051 first generation students have already joined, he conveyed. About 3,039 students took part in the counselling on Wednesday, of which 2,463 were allotted seats. IT course has had more than 2,000 takers so far.
No comments:
Post a Comment