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Counselling ends

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI Aug. 5. The counselling and supplementary counselling for single window admissions to engineering colleges in the State ended here on Monday with over 10,000 seats remaining unfilled.

According to officials in the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2002, there were 2,100 `free' seats and 8,226 `payment' seats lying vacant at the end of the supplementary counselling. About 2,000 seats were filled in the three-day process, they added.

The candidates, who were allotted seats during the supplementary counselling, have been asked to report to their respective colleges on August 8. They have another two days to pay their balance fees (after deducting the Rs.5,200 remitted during the counselling) to the TNEA authorities. This year's counselling schedule was unique in that for the first time, the single window admissions were done from four locations— Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Tiruchi— online simultaneously. Candidates from the respective regions were asked to report to the nearest counselling centres for selecting their colleges/branches as per rank order. Although, the `distributed' counselling ran into problems on the first day due to connectivity and power supply problems, the process settled down evenly and smoothly in subsequent days, as the software was changed overnight. The `bandwidth health' was monitored regularly by advanced systems deployed at the centralised location in Anna University.

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