The Hindu: Chennai: Wednesday, August 15, 2018.
Anna
University Vice-Chancellor M.K. Surappa and Higher Education Secretary Sunil
Paliwal on Tuesday denied allegations that the premier institution had fudged
student admission records.
Referring to
media reports about discrepancies in admission of students based on documents
provided under Right to Information Act, the officials told journalists that
the figures pertained only to admissions made under the Tamil Nadu Engineering
Admission process. The RTI data did not include the names of students who had
been admitted under various quotas.
“All the
students in the 3rd semester were there at the end of the second semester
also,” said Mr. Surappa.
He said the
39 candidates in the ECE department who did not figure in the list furnished
under the RTI Act, were those who had been admitted under categories such as
wards of NRI, wards of employees in gulf countries, foreign students and
industry-sponsored candidates.
The ECE
department has sanctioned intake for 180 seats of which 158 were surrendered to
counselling.
All those who
were in the second semester were also in the third semester in the mining
department, Mr. Surappa said.
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