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The past day for registration for Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2026 has been extended to June 5, S. Visakan, Director of Technical Education, said astatine a reappraisal gathering attended by Minister for Higher Education P. Viswanathan successful Chennai connected Monday.
The counselling for admittance to archetypal twelvemonth and part-time diploma courses successful authorities polytechnic colleges commenced connected Monday.
During a reappraisal of the ongoing admittance process successful State-run institutions, the curate was informed that arsenic connected May 31, arsenic galore arsenic 2,81,502 students person registered their applications astatine the TNEA portal (www.tneaonline.org) and 2,17,627 of them person paid the exertion fees. The past day for uploading certificates is June 6 pursuing which the TNEA volition delegate random numbers to candidates connected June 10. The fertile database volition beryllium published connected June 29. While the counselling dates were yet to beryllium announced, the TNEA authorities informed the curate that they were keeping an oculus connected developments pertaining to CBSE exam insubstantial enumeration fiasco that whitethorn hold the organisation of people sheets.
In addition, the counselling process for admittance to polytechnic courses began astatine the respective colleges connected Monday. As galore arsenic 18,888 students person applied for admittance to archetypal twelvemonth done the portal www.tnpoly.in. In 44 of the 55 authorities polytechnic colleges, Industry 4.0 Skill Centres person been established successful collaboration with the Tata radical offering 3 caller diploma programmes – Digital Manufacturing Technologies, Automation and Robotics, and Internet of Things. As galore arsenic 3,570 further seats person been created to facilitate pupil enrolment, Mr. Visakan, said.
On the different hand, implicit 2.24 lakh applications were received from students arsenic connected May 29 for admittance to authorities arts and subject colleges done the portal www.tngasa.in. Counselling for peculiar class candidates – persons with disabilities, sports quota, Tamil students from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, children of ex-servicemen, NCC candidates, and defence unit quota candidates – volition beryllium conducted connected June 5 and June 6. General counselling volition commencement from June 8 astatine the respective colleges. Those who person missed the archetypal model for registration volition get different accidental to registry from June 1 and the admittance process volition proceed till the seats are filled, E. Sundaravalli, Commissioner of Collegiate Education, informed the minister.
V. Arun Roy, Secretary, Higher Education Department, was contiguous astatine the reappraisal meeting.
