chennai in view of advancing engineering counselling by a month by tamil nadu engineering admissions tnea committee anna university is mulling increasing its intake on its four campuses to avoid vacant seatsto avoid seats going vacant in top engineering colleges the tnea introduced of paying tuition fees within seven days of seat allotment in each round despite the move around 400 seats were lapsed after students left their be btech seats after getting medical admissionswe have directed our four campuses including college of engineering guindy madras institute of technology mit chromepet to take the details of lapsed seats in each department for the last two years an official from anna university saidaccording to the plan the university may not increase seats in all departments at one go the lapsed seats are only in few departments such as computer science engineering cse electronics and communications engineering ece and biomedical engineering wherever there were vacant seats we may increase the intake after getting necessary approvals the official addedaccording to the revised schedule engineering admission counselling will start from july 7 however it is not clear when the medical counselling will be conducted as the neet results date is yet to announced if the counselling is conducted before the medical counselling vacant seats will go beyond 600 seats which would affect the ranking admitting additional students will limit the vacant seats the official saidexperts say the medical counselling will be delayed as more than 5000 candidates from manipur are yet to write the exam it is not clear when the nta will conduct neet exam for manipur candidates and release all india rank so its a wise decision to increase the intake said career consultant jayaprakash gandhi