Record sale of applications on day one CHENNAI: The sale of applications for professional courses touched a record high on day one with Anna University selling 1,80,411 application forms for engineering courses, offered through the single window system, on Monday and the directorate of medical education issuing 6,269 forms for MBBS course. "We have sold about 6,269 applications through 18 centers, which is a huge increase when compared to the 5,000 that we sold last year on the first day," Directorate of Medical Education Secretary Dr Sheila Grace said. The directorate has printed 20,000 forms this year which will be available till the last day of this month, which is also the last date of submission. "The increase can also be owing to the fact that we have 170 seats extra in government colleges and 194 new seats in self-financing colleges on offer. So the total number of seats is 2195," she added.

The Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) that started issuing applications on May 3 has registered an increase in the number of applications sold. "While the process will go on till June 7, we have sold 200 more applications this year so far. The number of students applying for the B Tech course in food processing and technology has almost doubled. While last year we had sold only 45 applications in this discipline, by this time, this year we have sold over 80 forms already," Dr Prabhakaran, chairman of admissions at TANUVAS, said. At the Dr Ambedkar Law University, issue of applications for admission to the School of Excellence in Law (SOEL) in Chennai started on Monday, while for the six affiliated law colleges outside Chennai it will start on Tuesday. "We had dispatched the forms to districts on Friday but it has not reached our colleges in Tiruchy and Madurai," vice chancellor Prof S Sachitanandam, Dr Ambedkar Law University said. The last date for submission of applications at the School of Excellence is May 31 while for the affiliated colleges it is June 4. Applications for the admission to II year BE/B Tech degree courses under lateral entry scheme for seats under the Directorate of Technical Education will be issued from May 26 to June 24. The single window counseling for lateral entry admissions 2010 will be conducted at the Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology in Karaikudi where the students will be called for counseling during the first week of July.