26 June 2010 CHENNAI: A major crisis is looming over the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA 2010) with the single window counselling scheduled for June 28 likely to be postponed as nearly 400 self-financing engineering colleges have failed to get the mandatory approval from the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) due to an ongoing legal wrangle.
On Friday, the Madras high court declined to pass any interim order directing the AICTE to grant ad hoc approvals to the institutions and adjourned to Monday (when the single window counselling is slated to begin),while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the apex regulatory body's new approval norms.
Authorities of Anna University, which is the nodal agency for conducting the single window counselling, were till late on Friday desperately contacting officials of the higher education ministry to find a way out of the messy situation. Higher education minister K Ponmudy is in Coimbatore attending the World Classical Tamil Conference.
As early as June 17, The Times of India had warned of a crisis like situation.
While the additional advocate-general of Tamil Nadu, P Wilson, told the court on Friday that the state would go ahead with the single window counselling as scheduled, sources in AICTE, New Delhi, made it clear that such an approach would have no legal sanctity.
"A similar situation had arisen in Karnataka this year when the government there had announced that the engineering admissions will begin on June 18 without getting the approved seat matrix for BE/BTech courses from the AICTE. They had to eventually put off the counselling at the eleventh hour," a senior official of AICTE, New Delhi said.
On Friday, the Madras high court declined to pass any interim order directing the AICTE to grant ad hoc approvals to the institutions and adjourned to Monday (when the single window counselling is slated to begin),while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the apex regulatory body's new approval norms.
Authorities of Anna University, which is the nodal agency for conducting the single window counselling, were till late on Friday desperately contacting officials of the higher education ministry to find a way out of the messy situation. Higher education minister K Ponmudy is in Coimbatore attending the World Classical Tamil Conference.
As early as June 17, The Times of India had warned of a crisis like situation.
While the additional advocate-general of Tamil Nadu, P Wilson, told the court on Friday that the state would go ahead with the single window counselling as scheduled, sources in AICTE, New Delhi, made it clear that such an approach would have no legal sanctity.
"A similar situation had arisen in Karnataka this year when the government there had announced that the engineering admissions will begin on June 18 without getting the approved seat matrix for BE/BTech courses from the AICTE. They had to eventually put off the counselling at the eleventh hour," a senior official of AICTE, New Delhi said.
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