AICTE approves 6060 new engineering seats

The number of engineering seats newly approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has increased by 6060. The existing engineering colleges have been allotted 720 new seats, to be available for admissions this year. AICTE has granted 5278 seats to its newly approved colleges. With this addition, the total number of seats available for admission this year has reached 50,423, reported The Times of India.

According to offices of the Admission Committee for Professional Courses, the addition of seats will have a second phase where AICTE is expected to allot more seats. Students can expect the number of seats available in self-financed colleges to go up.

Gujarat state has 110 engineering colleges including 85 self financed institutes. Though, the increase in seats may not work out favourably for the self-financed institutes, considering that over 5,500 seats remained vacant last year in such engineering colleges. ACPC officials told TOI that it is likely that as many as 12,000 seats may remain vacant this year. (Read more)

Nevertheless, AICTE might approve more seats on May 22 as the council is in the process of granting additional seats in existing colleges and giving approval to new colleges.

In another TOI report from Patna, the government engineering college at Chhapra and polytechnic at Katihar which were supposed to start their first session from July are in a fix as AICTE has not given its approval to the two new institutions as yet. Delay in approval from AICTE may prove critical for not only the start of the first session, but if the approval is delayed beyond the counseling period of engineering aspirants, the two institutes would lose out on attracting students for admissions this year. Counselling is scheduled to begin from the first week of June. (Read complete story)

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