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Eight lakh engineering seats goes vacant across the country
Posted on: 01/Aug/2015 12:46:41 PM
Prof Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Friday said 50 per cent of the total seats in engineering colleges across the country were lying vacant. The Council has also cut down intake in several colleges and courses totaling 35,000 this year.
Delivering a special address at the first Indian engineering Deans Council Global Summit on "Engineering education-current scenario & future prospects", Prof Sahasrabudhe, who assumed charge as the council chairman recently said that he competition to get an engineering seat had also reduced with as many as eight lakh seats going vacant across the country. He further added, "A number of colleges is not able to fill the seats. They don’t have quality faculty as well. There are a few doctorates among professors. AICTE is conducting regular inspections to weed out such institutes. The number of seats in the current year had reduced by 35,000."
Echoing the opinion of industry recruiters on the unemployability of Indian graduate engineers, he suggested an active co-ordination between industry and colleges to resolve this issue. Most graduate-students don’t even have the maths knowledge of class X students, he remarked.
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