Hubballi: Over 29,000 engineering seats of the total 77,500 is state remained vacant in continuation of last year’s trend to indicate engineering stream is fast loosing charm in changing times.
A whopping 37% of the engineering seats in private, government and aided colleges, bagged by students through the Common Entrance Test or the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) route have gone unfilled.
These figures do not include management quota seats in private colleges. Of the 62,000 government and government-quota seats allotted through the CET, nearly 19,000 are vacant, while over 10,000, of the total 15,500 seats allotted through the COMEDK route, are vacant.
Placements even in good colleges were not up to the mark, opine experts in the field and feel the demand is likely to reduce further in the coming years as the supply outstrips demand in the present scenario.
At the other end, low intake is posing a great challenge to managements, even running the colleges.
Engineering colleges are facing a problem after the advent of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) as many students tend to give up their engineering seats after getting through medical and dental admissions, according to the principal of one of the prestigious engineering colleges in Bengaluru.
It’s not restricted to state alone but a national phenomenon, he added and called upon all stake holders to analyse this process.
Considering the trend there is an urgent need for the government to come up with a policy decision to protect the interests of college managements.
