Extraordinary registration for Joint Entrance Exams (JEE) shows an increase in competition to secure a leading engineering chair including IIT and NIT.
On the other hand, some engineering colleges in various countries struggle to get the number of applications needed and some chairs remain not inhabited every year.
According to all Indian councils for data on technical education (AICTE), college engineering in Telangana, Maharashtra, Kerala, Odisha and West West, for some people, do not have takers for around 50% of seats available in various streams.
Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairperson, Aicte, said that empty seats on college engineering were not new phenomena.
“The situation is almost the same for the past 7-8 years.
The main reason for this job is that some countries are granted more than their requirements which result in a lack of candidates for technical courses,” said Sahasrabudhe.
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“These universities are not under the scope of Aicte, and they have a large number of seats available for technical courses.
Students are interested in their luxury infrastructure and vast campuses and choose these universities instead of Aicte approved in cities Tier II and Level III, “added Chief Justice Aicte.
According to GK Viswanadh, Professor of Civil Engineering & Director of UGC-HRDC, Jntuh, Hyderabad, empty seats in college techniques should not be seen as a negative trend.
“Fewer applications in college techniques can be seen as a sign of change in mindset.
It seems that students and parents gradually begin to think about career choices other than engineering,” Viswanadh said, who believed that those who used to go for technical courses after class XII must be Exploring other roads including BPHEm, BBA, and other professional courses.
In a lack of employment opportunities for engineering graduates and their impact on registration, Viswanadh explained that empty seats that rise in college techniques cannot be fully associated with a lack of employment opportunities.
In accordance with the College of Engineering Hyderabad, a good placement during the 2019-2020 academic year in all branch techniques.
A total of 64 companies participated in the recruitment process.
A total of 94.65% and 93.10% of BTECH students each received campus placement in 2018-19 and 2017-18.
Industrial growth is disproportionate
On the other hand, Kesab Bhattacharya, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, blamed a indiscrimined increase in the number of universities throughout the country for a worrying situation.
“Industrial development is disproportionate with an increase in the number of universities that offer BTECH, a course.
Industrial growth is mostly limited to the IT sector.
Therefore employment opportunities in this field are more than core sectors,” Bhattacharya said.
He added that poor infrastructure and low packages have increased insult to injury, which leads to fewer takers for technical courses in the state.
For the 2020-21 academic session, the University of Jadavpur also had to do more than three rounds of counseling to fill around 1,200 seats offered by 16 departments.
The University of Jadavpur offers tickets to enter technical courses based on the performance of students on the entrance exam with West Bengal (WBJee).
Bhattacharya also believes that the exorbitant costs charged by various universities are other reasons for low turn-out for engineering programs.