Online admissions for Govt Arts and Science colleges to begin on July 20

Tamil Nadu’s Government Arts and Science colleges will start accepting applications for undergraduate courses online from July 20, according to the News Bulletin issued by the Higher Education Department.

An announcement from the state Minister for Higher Education KP Anbalagan on Thursday said that Tamil Nadu has 109 government arts and science colleges. Around 92,000 seats in undergraduate courses are available for students in these colleges for which around 2 lakh students submit their applications, every year.

The Minister also added that on consideration with the current pandemic situation, the government of Tamil Nadu has set up websites to accept applications online from students.

Students applying for government arts and science colleges can do so through www.tngasa.in and www.tndceonline.org. Those who are interested in applying for courses in government polytechnic colleges can do so through www.tngptc.in and www.tngptc.com.

The application window will open on July 20, 2020. For clarification of doubts, the students can call 044-22351014 or 044-22351015.

On Wednesday, the state government announced that the applications for Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions will also be made fully online. The application window for undergraduate engineering courses opened on Wednesday, June 15, 2020 and will be open till August 16, 2020. The counselling process is expected to be completed by October 15. Around 465 engineering colleges have registered for the counselling process till Wednesday and the final number of colleges and the seats available will be announced later, as per the minister.