Admission Guidelines
Admission Guidelines
2. Registers to be maintained
The following Registers and other related documents pertaining to students admission
should be maintained and preserved by the Department:
a. List of Applications received within the last date prescribed
b. List of Applications received after the last date prescribed.
c. Minutes of Selection Committee meetings / Rank list registers signed by the
members of the Selection Committee.
d. Copies of selection lists published
e. Despatch of admission letter to the selected candidates.
f. Admission Register
g. The Department shall maintain registers regarding the applications received
from SC/ST/MBC/DNC/BC students who have been selected for admission
and the number of such candidates admitted.
3. Rule of Reservation :
The admission shall be made purely on the basis of Merit in subject to the rule of
reservation of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
1. 31% for Open Competition (OC)
2. 20% for Most Backward Classes (MBC) and Denotified Communities (DNC).
3. 30% for Backward Classes (BC) within this 3.5% for Muslims
4. In the 18% for Scheduled Castes (SC), 3% of seats offered to Aranthathiyars (within
the seats reserved for S.C) 1% for Scheduled Tribes (S.T.)
4. SUPPLEMENTARY CANDIDATES
1. The supplementary Candidates should be incorporated in the appropriate place
in the rank list and they are eligible for admission if vacancies exist or arise.
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However admission should be done as per the norms without waiting for the
results of the supplementary candidates.
2. The selection of candidates for admission into the various courses and media of
instructions shall be made from out of the rank list strictly according to the
Government rules of reservation.
5. The rank list for selection may be released within 10 days after the last date for receipt
of applications. There shall not be any awarding of marks in the interview for
admission, unless otherwise specifically stated in these guidelines elsewhere.
6. The Department Heads on the basis of the selection made by the selection committee,
shall make the admissions. The selection committee is responsible for the entire
admission.
Hence they should follow the admission norms scrupulously. However, the over all
responsibility will rest with the Head of the Department only.
SC/ST/MBC/DNC/BC candidates selected under the open quota as per merit from the
Rank-List are not to be taken into account against the reserved quota.
8. Procedure for selection/admission under reserved quota for SC /ST / MBC/ DNC/ BC:
After filling up the vacancies in the open competition quota as aforesaid, the vacancies
BC / MBC/ DNC / SC / ST quota must be filled by candidates from the respective
communities only according to merit from the Rank List.
b. Out of the quota for 50% (30% BC and 20% MBC/DNC) reserved for
Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Denotified Communities, 3
out of every 100 vacancies/seats shall be reserved for physically handicapped
persons belongs to BC, MBC and DNC.
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c. Out of the quota of 31% intended for open competition 3 out of every 100
seats shall be reserved for physically handicapped in general.
b. One seat 1 seat in PG. courses reserved for NCC cadet of outstanding merit
with “c” certificate holders. ( G.O. 354, Higher Education(D1) dept. dated
8.7.1997).
The selection list shall clearly reveal particulars of candidates selected under each category -
OC/BC/MBC/DNC/SC/ST/Physically handicapped/Sports Quota/Ex-servicemen/etc.
The regular selection / waiting list of the candidates for each course under each
category shall be in the descending order from the respective Rank-Lists.
12. Every selection list must contain the following details:
a. Number of seats sanctioned for the course
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14. The unfilled SC/ST vacancies can be filled by MBC / DNC candidates. Unfilled MBC /
DNC seats can be filled by BC candidates as well as unfilled BC vacancies can be
filled by other communities. Unfilled Muslim BC vacancies can be filled by other BC.
15. If applications received for a course are exhausted, but vacancies still exist in that
course, then no fresh applications should be entertained - if there are applications of
candidates not selected for other courses are still pending with the college. Such
vacancies should be notified and requests for transfer of application to such course be
called for and processed by the aforesaid procedures.