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Tamil Nadu School Education Department has directed district collectors to set up control rooms by June 5 to ensure all Class 12 students secure higher education admissions. Covering 5.44 lakh students, teams will track, counsel and support admissions using EMIS data, focusing on dropouts and vulnerable groups. A state-level control room and regular monitoring will oversee progress.

Chennai: In a major push to improve higher education enrolment across Tamil Nadu, the School Education Department has directed all District Collectors to establish district-level control rooms by June 5 and work towards ensuring that every eligible Class 12 student secures admission to a higher education or technical institution.

The initiative, first introduced last year, will be implemented from June to October and will cover all 5.44 lakh students who were enrolled in Class 12 during the 2025-26 academic year. These include 3.55 lakh students from government schools and 1.89 lakh students from government-aided institutions.

Principal Secretary of School Education B. Chandra Mohan, in a communication sent to district administrations, instructed that the control rooms be headed by officers of the rank of Deputy Collector and function as nodal centres for tracking students after the completion of higher secondary education.

Officials associated with the programme said the district-level teams will use data available through the Educational Management Information System (EMIS) to identify students who have not applied for higher education courses, failed to clear board examinations, missed examinations, or have not registered for supplementary examinations.