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New Indian Express
4 days ago
- Business
- New Indian Express
TNGASA lookalike website clickbaits students applying to govt arts colleges
COIMBATORE: Students are left in a flurry of confusion while applying online for postgraduate courses at Tamil Nadu Government Arts and Science Colleges (TNGASA), as a doppelganger website will pop up, probably in an attempt to poach some clicks off the official portal. Lakhs of students visit the website during admission time, said sources. If you type 'TNGASA' on search engines, two domains will appear, the official one with '.in' extension and a lookalike with '.com' extension. The Directorate of Collegiate Education's (DCE) lethargy to purchase domains with other extensions is blamed as the reason behind the confusion. Students applying for Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions also face a similar plight, with sources from DCE admitting that someone also purchased the '.in' domain, which will appear in the second spot on search engines. Officers who manage the portal did not purchase any domains except '.org', they added. P Deepak, a student in Coimbatore, told TNIE, 'Recently, I searched for the TNGASA website to apply for a postgraduate course. On it, two websites with the same name, TNGASA, appeared. When I hurriedly clicked on the second website, which had a '.com' domain, except for the admission process, there were details of all arts and science colleges with advertisements offered by Google.' An assistant professor at a government college in Salem said several students who completed Class 12 faced the same trouble. A web developer, P Naveen from Coimbatore, said that the DCE should have purchased other domains such as '.com', '.net' and '.org. 'Since the department failed to do this, someone could have purchased the '.com' extension and then launched and operated a website with the same name. Practically, it is legal. The fault rests with the department, which neglected to acquire the domains priced under Rs 5,000 annually,' he said. Government departments should form new websites with a '.gov' name, which would prevent private entities from misusing such websites, he added. 'When a second website appears with the same name, a large number of students will definitely visit the same website organically. Through this, the owner of the website can earn more money using Google AdSense,' he explained.
The Hindu
12-05-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Awareness on online admission process in government arts and science colleges yet to trickle down to applicants from rural parts
Though the Higher Education Department started implementing online system for Tamil Nadu Government Arts and Science Colleges Admissions (TNGASA) since 2021, college heads in Coimbatore say students seeking admissions still ask for applications in print. For instance, the Government Arts and Science College (autonomous), Coimbatore, had, made it known that applications will not be issued in the college campus, and called upon students to apply through the website 'Students and parents are requested not to come in person,' Principal M.R. Yezhili had requested. The college has been the second most preferred government college next only to Presidency College, Chennai, for years now. The Admission Facilitation Centre in the college began enabling the students belonging to rural parts to apply for admission into the colleges and courses of their choice by making an order of choices. The students have to be educated that a single application would suffice for 176 Government Arts and Science Colleges in Tamil Nadu, T. Veeramani, Principal, Government Arts and Science College for Women, said. Two faculty members are deputed every day to handle the online admission process for the students from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. At least 30 students turn up every day, Prof. Veeramani said. Right from user registration, the staff help out the students to log in, fill in personal information, and furnish details pertaining to special reservation, scholarship, school of study, and academic qualification. For a number of students, the staff at the facilitation centres have even created the email ids, Prof. Veeramani said. In a way, the personal visits are helpful for students coming from other districts. The students visit the colleges to learn about the facilities and the availability of hostels. Not all students succeed in gaining entry into the government hostels. The visits serve the purpose of knowing about the presence of private hostels in the vicinity, and to determine their economic capacity to sustain the expenditure. Nevertheless, the college heads opine that the information on the online admission process must be disseminated to the students well in advance at their respective schools.
