As much as 50% of engineering seats remain vacant; Centre asks IIT-Delhi for help
To help alleviate the situation, the Centre has called upon the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi, to chalk out a
comprehensive plan for the coming decade.
In what has left the central government in dismay, according to data
released by the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE), out
of 15.5 lakh Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Bachelor of Technology
(BTech) seats in 3,291 engineering colleges across the country, over 50%
remained vacant in 2016-17. In 2015-16, too, half of 14.76 lakh
engineering seats had no takers.
To help alleviate the situation,
the Centre has called upon the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) -
Delhi, to chalk out a comprehensive plan for the coming decade, which
will ascertain current requirements in technical education, and suggest
measures to match the same. In this endeavour, as reported by the Indian
Express, IIT-Delhi will coordinate with IITs, IIMs, and NITs in each
state, and prepare a draft national policy on educational reform within
four months. It will also analyze job requirements in the industry, and
predict the demand for technical courses in the near future.
In
early June, the Joint Admission Board (JAB), which conducts engineering
entrance examination for admission to various engineering colleges in
India, in an unprecedented move, issued an extended merit list based on
the directive of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). In
the first list, released on June 10th, 18,138 candidates had cleared the
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Advanced) 2018. However, as per the
revised list, as many as 31,980 candidates cleared the test.
In
a statement by IIT Kanpur, which organized this year's JEE Advanced
exam, said, "There have been concerns expressed about the low number of
qualified candidates in JEE (Advanced) 2018 as compared to previous
years. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, also
expressed the desire of the ministry for increasing the number of
qualified candidates so as to ensure that every category has at least
twice the number of qualified candidates than the Number of seats." Now,
more students have become eligible for getting admissions in IITs.
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