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Chennai: Eighty per cent of students who have attended the single window counseling, chose only Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering or Information Technology.
After the first four days of the counseling (July 21-24), not a single student had opted for branches such as food, rubber, polymer, fashion technology, textile chemistry, Petrochemical technology, or instrumentation and control engineering. Similarly, there are no takers for automobile engineering offered by self-financing colleges.
When counseling began at four locations in the State on July 21 (for regular academic stream), the single window pool had 56,260 seats (including Anna University’s constituent colleges – 1505; government and aided colleges 3,179 and unaided colleges 51576 seats). Another 212 seats were surrendered after counseling began taking the number to 56,472.