Ponmudy releases TNEA rank list

CHENNAI: The much-awaited rank list of the students seeking engineering courses in Tamil Nadu was released with a total of ten students getting the first rank with 200 out of 200 cut-off marks.

This year, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA-2022) process was extended against the original schedule due to the delay in declaring the CBSE Class 12 results.

Releasing the rank list Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy said of the total 2.11 lakh applicants, who were enrolled in engineering admissions, as many as 1,58,157 students were on the rank list.

He also said that a total of 22,587 students, who studied in government schools and got the 7.5% reservation, were also there in the merit list.

Stating that as many as 431 engineering colleges, including Anna University and its department institutions, were participating in the engineering counselling this year, he said that firstly, the counselling will be conducted for differently-abled students, wards of the ex-servicemen, and sports persons besides providing 7.5% quota for government school students from August 20.