Hey,
The Tamil Nadu Engineering results are out and I know a lot of people trying to figure out the colleges that suit their marks. Though not a very accurate method, I have seen people using the previous year's cut off to get an idea of the college that shall fall in their mark range. The TNEA website provides this data, but the interface is not really useful for someone doing analysis.
I had visited my wife's home town this weekend and saw her wasting time navigating the bad-to-use site, trying to find the college for her younger brother. I offered to help, and came up with a spreadsheet that had all the details. Simply sorting the website would give an idea of the cutoff range per department, per college, per category (oc, bc, sc, st) etc.
You can find the spreadsheet hosted at Google docs here. I also have the MS Excel version that I have hosted in a zipped format here. The greasemonkey script that did this is here.
Would be posting the technical details on how I screen scraped (trivial, but worth documenting !! ) the entire site here. Watch out this space for updates, etc.
An appeal : Just thought of putting a personal note here. Can we please do away with the caste system in India ? Why have caste based reservation, why not economic status based ? Should economically weak OC candidates with mediocre marks suffer ?
Ya ... agreed ... the percentage of candidates in most of the 'bigger' reservation classes, who are 'average', is about the same value ...
ReplyDeletewhen did u get married???
ReplyDeleteI am not married yet
ReplyDeleteI am differ with your view.Because caste cannot be changed by the revenue authorities.But the annual income of a family or individual changed by them and they mint hte money.hence this is an good system
ReplyDeletefor Tamilnadu.
I expect more analysis in this site.
Very good initiation.
@babu .....
ReplyDeletejust because one criteria fails does not mean that the other is better. All i am was pondering was ..should poor FCs with average marks suffer ? Is it their mistake that they are FC and hence, less important that average-mark OCs ?
Hi, It was a great list. Can you write a post on how you extracted the info from the anna univ website?
ReplyDeletereg. reservation, the arguments going on in this site is nothing new.. but who listens to you ? as Babu said, it is easy for the administration to manage with the cast system. Changing the criteria to income is difficult and prone for manipulation of statistics. In the existing system itself, one thing they can do.. take a census in govt. departments and list out the officers who availed reservation system and then prepare a negative list of their children and wards.. like this they can improve the existing system year by year.. Obviously, indian administrators and politicians will never come forward to solve a problem in an easy and logical way.. what they want is not a solution but aggravation of problems...
ReplyDeleteMany castes in Tamilnadu reserved list do not speak Tamil. Interesting. A check on the Tamil Nadu official reserved website reveals this:
ReplyDeletewww.tn.gov.in/bcmbcmw/bclist.htm
Quite a large number of Telugu, Hindi and Kannada speakers who are all labeled under Tamils. On other Tamilnadu politians seem to be consider the Tamil FC community as non-Tamil going by their regular speeches of hatred.
Interesting, but not surprising considering the fact the most of leaders in Tamilnadu including Karunanidhi and Ramadoss speak only Telugu at home and obviously prefer non-Tamil caste.