Tamil Nadu: New TANCA counselling schedule released

CHENNAI: Nearly two months after postponing counselling due to cancellation of 10.5% special reservation for vanniyars in November, Anna University on Thursday night released the revised schedule for Tamil Nadu Common Admissions (TANCA), 2021 counselling.
Admissions to ME, MTech, MArch and MPlan programmes will be conducted from January 3 to February 1 as per the counselling schedule released on the university website annauniv.edu.It will be the first admission counselling after the Supreme Court order which barred the state from making further appointments or admissions under 10.5% special reservation. Publishing the merit list, the university said students can contact the officials for any grievance till January 2. “The counselling for GATE candidates including the differently abled will start on January 3 and counselling for TANCET candidates including the differently abled will begin on January 11, 2022,” said Anna University vice-chancellor R Velraj.
As many as 3,085 students have applied to the PG engineering courses.
Hearing a batch of appeals filed by TN, PMK and a few others, the Supreme Court declined to stay the Madras high court order and also barred the state from making further appointments or admissions under the quota. Appointments/admissions already done will hinge on the outcome of the case, it said and posted hearing to February 15.