Chennai: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has debarred six institutions in Tamilnadu from admitting students this year. The action has been taken after these colleges were found violating the council’s norms.
Out of the six, five are engineering colleges and one is a polytechnic college in Pudukkottai. The engineering colleges are said to be located in Kancheepuram, Coimbatore, Tiruchy, and Vellore districts.
It is to be noted that the AICTE has stopped admission in 34 institutions across the country. Meanwhile, a total of 13 candidates, including five girls, have scored the full cut-off of 200 marks this year in the merit list published by the Tamilnadu Engineering Admissions committee.
As many as 1,39,033 candidates are eligible for counselling — including 1,36,973 candidates in the academic stream and 2,060 in the vocational stream. Among them were 12 transgender persons.
This year, 440 colleges with 1,51,870 seats are participating in the single-window counselling that will be held in five rounds.