Summary:
The third round of counselling for Tamil Nadu Engineering Admission (TNEA) has concluded and over 1.21 lakh seats are still lying vacant. So far, only 46,213 seats have been filled out of 1,67,652 seats available in government, government-aided and private engineering colleges in the State. The figures reveal that at least 1,51,574 seats are available in private engineering colleges in the State, of which only 34,740 seats have been filled so far. However, TNEA committee officials are hopeful they will be able to fill in 30,000 more seats with fourth round of counselling and supplementary counselling. Notably, in the three rounds, over 64,000 students were called for counselling while in the fourth round students securing rank from 64,094 to 1,01,692 will participate..