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Tamil Nadu reduces qualifying mark for
admissions to Engineering colleges
Chennai, May 19 The Tamilnadu
Government has reduced the qualifying mark for
securing admissions to Engineering colleges.
Talking to newsmen in Chennai on Wednesday, the
Higher Education Minister Mr. Ponmudy said the
marks for students belonging to general category
has been brought down from 55 percent to 50,
while the minimum marks for Backward class
students will be 45. He said as far as the most
backward classes are concerned the mark would be
40 per cent.
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Following the government deciding to bear the
expenses for the first generation graduates, the
minister said all seats in engineering colleges
in the state are likely to be filled up. The
Minister said this year a total of one lakh
eighty four thousand engineering colleges
application forms have been sold so far.
