COIMBATORE: Separate admission processes will be followed for filling up management quota seats in self-financing engineering colleges in the Northern, Western and Southern regions of TN this academic year. A couple of years ago, the management quota admissions were done in a centralised manner. However, now there is a three-way split in the process.It is reliably learnt that the permanent panel for monitoring admissions in private professional colleges headed by retired Madras HC judge K Raviraja Pandian has granted permission to three associations of managements in Chennai, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli to conduct the admission process.Accordingly, the Consortium of Self-Financing Professional Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu will be the nodal agency for conducting admissions for management quota BE/BTech seats in the institutions located in the northern and central parts of TN. In Coimbatore and its surroundings, the admission shall be done by the Association of Management of Coimbatore Anna University Affiliated Colleges. The Tirunelveli-based Anna University Self-Financing Engineering College Management Association will be responsible for filling up seats in the southern districts. While legally the role of these associations is to ensure that no management quota seat is filled up without following the rule of inter se merit, in reality, these private nodal agencies simply end up giving the stamp of legitimacy to admissions that have already been completed by colleges individually.A source in the higher education ministry said that the committee recently finalised the tentative schedule for management quota admissions as per which application forms for BE/BTech courses shall be issued from June 10 to June30. For postgraduate courses, the applications would be issued from June 8 to July 13. The last date for the submitting the application is July 23 for undergraduate courses and July 17 for postgraduate programmes. The rank list will tentatively be published on August 24 for UG and August 22 for PG courses.This means, technically, managements cannot admit any student on their own until the single window counselling for filling up Government Quota seats is completed. “Any admission done prior to this would be illegal,” the official said.In Tamil Nadu, 50% of the seats in private engineering colleges are administered by minorities and 35% of the seats in unaided non-minority institutions are earmarked as management quota seats. The remaining seats are filled up by a single window counselling process conducted at the Anna University, Chennai.
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