Going by current statistics, Maharashtra students seem to be losing interest in taking up engineering courses. As many as 50,000 seats set to remain vacant in engineering colleges of the state this year, and this decline trend has been observed since the last five years.
Vacancies remain high since 5 years: Stats
- Out of the 1.30 lakh seats this year, only 85,501 candidates had sought admissions
- Of these, 79,599 were allotted seats till the last round of admissions on this Tuesday
- While 79,599 candidates were allotted seats, not all will confirm their admissions
- Similarly, last year too, 41 per cent, or 56,000 of the total seats were left vacant at the end of the admission process
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Measures taken not showing results
The situation has not changed even after a number of measures to reduce vacancies and fill up seats were introduced by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE).
This year, no new seats in engineering colleges have been added, which is a first in five years.Meanwhile, colleges were also allowed to reduce their intake of students or closedown which has brought down the total seat count by around 8,000.
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Why are students giving engineering colleges a miss?
The reduction in intake by colleges also did not have a great impact on vacancies. This is because there aren’t enough jobs in the engineering industry.
“If there aren’t corresponding jobs in the market, why will students join engineering courses?” — GD Yadav, Vice Chancellor of Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, adding that seats in Indian Institutes of Technology, too, are going vacant now.
The percentage of vacancies has reduced only marginally. However, when you put it in context of the fact that almost 8,000 seats were reduced, the vacancy is strikingly high, added Yadav.