This year Maharashtra will witness 50,000 engineering seats going vacant with supply exceeding demand for the engineering programs. This has been a repeated trend with 1 in every 3 seats having no taker. In 2012, about 44,414 seats were vacant when admission season closed. This figure is equivalent to the entire capacity of engineering colleges in Kerala.
Maharashtra’s Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) received about 1.15 lakh applications from students for around 1.62 lakh seats across all engineering colleges. While the number of seats in engineering has gone up in 2013 by almost 7,000, the total number of applications has increased by only 2,000 compared to 2012. The new engineering colleges have received lukewarm response from candidates as well.
A DTE official said, although there is still a huge demand for seats in top colleges, students do not want to opt for institutes which do not have enough teachers and quality faculty, or ones where administration is poor. Poor placement is another deterrent for students.
The admission scenario in Maharashtra could have been worse if the new norm was not introduced in 2013. As per this norm, for the very first time, Chemistry has been made an optional subject. Students could have chosen either chemistry, biology or other vocational courses to meet the eligibility cut-off of 45%. There is a slight increase in applications as the new norm has made more students meet the cut-off mark.
The scenario is similar in the rest of the country and the data received from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) revealed that 66,988 seats or 19% of the total 3, 52,571 positions in business management schools were vacant in 2012. Out of the 14,85,894 seats in engineering colleges 2,82,320 or 19% remained unoccupied in 2011-12.
Source: The Times of India
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