TNEA rank list released, counselling for engineering admissions to begin on July 22; check details here

CHENNAI: The Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE), Chennai, has released the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) rank list of students seeking to join engineering courses. It has also announced that the TNEA-2024 counselling process will start on July 22 and end on September 11.

Thosithaa Lakshmi N, who studied in Sri Sankara Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School Urapakkam, Chengalpattu, secured the first rank while Nilanjana K who studied in a private school in Tirunelveli got the second rank.

Ravani S, who studied in a government school from Class VI to Class XII, got the first rank under the 7.5% horizontal reservation quota.

Director and Commissioner of DOTE K. Veera Raghava Rao said Thosithaa Lakshmi N, who studied in Sri Sankara Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School Urapakkam, Chengalpattu, secured number one position in the rank list and followed by Nilanjana K from a Private school in Tirunelveli, who got second rank.

He said Ravani S, who studied in government school from Class VI to Class XII, got first rank under 7.5% horizontal reservation quota.

He said the engineering couselling will be conducted in three rounds.

Accordingly, the students, who have secured between 200 and 179 cut-off marks will participate in the first round. In the second round candidates, who got cut-off marks between 178.9 and 142 will participate.

In the final and third round, students, who have secured cut-off marks between 141.9 and 77 will attend.

This year a total of 2.53 lakh students have applied for engineering admission and out of which 2.09 lakh have paid the registration fees and got the random numbers.

However, 1,99,868 eligible students were in the rank list.