CHENNAI: Almost 3-fourths of the seats continue to be vacant even after 3 rounds of on-line counselling for the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2020. While there are 1,61,877 seats in 458 faculties this year, best 42,421 seats had been stuffed on the quit of the 1/3 round.
Further, throughout the 3 rounds, approximately forty in line with cent of folks that registered for the engineering counselling did now no longer in the long run take part in it. These college students might also additionally get a hazard to contest once more withinside the supplementary couselling with a purpose to be held after the fourth round.
While a touch extra than 1/2 of the seats remained vacant on the quit of the engineering counselling in 2019, the emptiness withinside the authorities quota seats on my own is expected to be as excessive as 60 in line with cent this year.
Projecting the identical participation fee for the fourth round, wherein forty,572 applicants had been slotted, more or less 24,500 extra candidates can be provisionally admitted. This method round 67,000 seats can be stuffed via way of means of the quit of the very last round -- which involves best 41.four in line with cent of all seats.
Totally, approximately 2.sixty four lakh BE and BTech seats, below the authorities and control quota, are up for grabs in Tamil Nadu this educational year.
There is a drop in participation withinside the counselling whilst the wide variety of packages jumped up via way of means of 20 in line with cent from final year, from 1.33 lakh to 1.6 lakh. Engineering school recommend that this fashion is correlated with lowering task security.
A Mechanical Engineering school member from an engineering university in Chennai informed The New Indian Express that lots of his college students had been located with very terrible salaries withinside the previous couple of years. "Some college students joined name centres and coffee quit software program jobs that paid them best Rs 10-15,000 a month. The maximum package deal any scholar from the branch were given became Rs 3.2 lakh in line with annum," he said.
Despite this, the hobby in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) associated fields has remained regular in view that 2018. A sector of all candidates who've been allocated a seat up to now have opted for Computer Science. More than 1/2 of of them have picked both Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering or Information Technology.
