New Engineering colleges established by the state government over the past couple of years as constitutent units of the Anna Universities in Chennai, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli are not the hot favourities of toppers.
A perusal of the seat-allotment data during the ongoing single-window counseling for Tamil Nadu engineering Admissions (TNEA 2009) shows that over the past couple of days, high-scoring candidates have preferred to join leading self-financing engineering colleges although seats are available in the new Anna University colleges.
While last year the government had set up six colleges, this year it started five.
With the seats in the Open Competition and backward Community categories in these institutions being filled, aspirants are now moving to self-financing colleges like SSN College of engineering, Velammal Engineering College, RMK Engineering College St. Joseph’s College of engineering, Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Sri Venkateswara College of engineering, the Panimalar Engineering college, Sri Sairam College.
Consequently seats in the 11 newly-established constituent colleges of the Anna University in Villupuram, Tindivanam, Arni, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram Thirukkuvalai, Panruti, Pattukkottai, Dindigul, Nagercoil and Thoothukudi, both last year and this year, are up for grabs.
