Chennai:

It was a memorable day for S. Abhinesh from Dindigul who scored 200 out of 200 cut off marks in both engineering and medical counselling this year. Directorate of medical education and Anna University, which conduct counselling for medical and engineering streams, released rank list for government quota’s single window counselling on Wednesday.

A total of 11 students secured 200 out of 200 cut off marks in engineering whereas seven secured top marks in medical stream. The cut off mark has come down by 0.25 to 0.50 marks in engineering and 0.25 in medical this year. Admission to top medical and engineering colleges is expected to be stiff this year with several students securing the same cut off marks.

About 26,348 state board students and 850 candidates from the CBSE stream have applied for 2,903 seats in medical colleges in the state this year. In the engineering stream, 1.89 lakh students had applied for 1.97 lakh seats.

General counselling for medical stream will start on June 19 and engineering aspirants will sit for counselling on June 21. The state will add an additional 285 seats in medical colleges after it receives an official communication from the Medical Council of India (MCI).

As far as engineering colleges are concerned the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has approved 11 new engineering colleges in the state, which will add over 3,000 seats to the seat matrix.

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> News> Current Affairs / DC / June 13th, 2013