Sunday, Apr 18, 2010
Vellore: Out of the 1,57,554 candidates, who had applied for the VIT Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE)-2010, a total of 1,49,862 candidates, constituting 95%, turned up for the entrance examination held on Saturday. Examination was held in 231 centres in 94 cities including three abroad (Dubai, Riyadh and Singapore) to fill 3000 seats in 13 B.Tech. Programmes in the Vellore and Chennai campuses of VIT University, Vellore. E. James Jebaseelan Samuel, Admission Officer, VIT, who supervised the the VIT campus here, told TheHindu that about 270 faculty members of VIT and other administrative officials were engaged in conducting the entrance examination in India and abroad. G. Viswanathan, Chancellor and President of VIT went to supervise the examination in Jaipur, while Sankar Viswanathan, Vice-President (Administration) went to Dehradun, G.V. Sampath, Vice-President (Operations) to Delhi, Sekar Viswanathan, Vice-President (University Affairs) to Singapore, G.V. Selvam, Vice-President (Chennai campus) to Mumbai and D.P. Kothari, Vice-Chancellor to Agartala. 36 observers and squad members were involved in monitoring the centres. The Admission Officer said candidates with physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology in the Plus Two were eligible for admission to all the 13 B.Tech. Programmes, while those taken physics, chemistry, botany and zoology were eligible for admission only to B.Tech. Biotechnology, B.Tech. Bioinformatics and B.Tech. Biomedical Engineering.