Thursday, April 15, 2010
To decentralise admission process

Chennai: More than 130 self-financing engineering colleges in western Tamil Nadu are seeking to conduct a separate admission process for filling up management quota seats for the 2010-11 academic year.

This development has put under strain an earlier plan to complete management quota admissions in engineering colleges on a state-wide basis with the Consortium of Self-Financing Professional, Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu serving as the nodal agency. Institutions in the western districts under the aegis of the Association of Management of Coimbatore Anna University Affiliated Colleges (AMCAC) have submitted a representation to the permanent committee for monitoring admissions seeking permission to conduct

a separate admission process.
Retired Madras high court judge Raviraja Pandian, who heads the committee, had on Monday invited office bearers of the AMCAC to discuss their representation. “The committee chairman raised certain issues, which we clarified,” an officer bearer of AMCAC told The Times of India.

The logic behind the demand was to facilitate a decentralised admission process for colleges in western districts like Coimbatore, Erode, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri and Tirupur. “The same reasons and logic that were applied for creating separate Anna Universities in Coimbatore, Tirunelveli and Trichy with affiliating powers in respective regions hold good for our demand to conduct separate admissions too,” the office bearer said.

This is the first time a group of institutions are seeking to act independent of the consortium, which has been the nodal agency for management quota admissions in the past.