Around 40000 seats remain vacant in Engineering in State

Around 40000 seats remain vacant in Engineering in State

In MBA-1928 and in polytechnic vacancy goes up to 9185 in Nagpur division

By Vikas Vaidya

Even after All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) relaxed the HSC percentage criterion for getting admission to Diploma and Degree engineering, the vacancy in these faculties registered increase. Last year in Engineering around 35000 seats remained vacant, this year the figure gone up to around 40000. Comparatively in MBA the percentage vacancy has gone down. Last year the vacancy in MBA was 2677 while this year it has registered 1928 seats. The number of seats remained vacant last year in polytechnic was 6011, this year it has gone up to 9185, informed Dr Krantikumar Dhote, Executive Director of Raisoni Group of Insitutions.
This year 2,80,042 students appeared for the State Engineering Entrance Examination (SEEE) as compared to 2,49,052 in 2010 and 2,54,208 last year. Last year, around 35,000 seats were vacant. In Nagpur University the vacancy was around 7000 seats, this year it has crossed 7000 mark. Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management (RCOEM) has its 100 per cent seats filled. Apart from this, Government Engineering College, Chandrapur, KITS, Ramtek, GHRCE, YCCE, LIT, RGCER, St Vincent Palloti, Jhulelal Institute of Technology, GNIET, Wanjari were prefered by most of the students. In MBA again RCOEM was most prefered. After that, Dr Ambedkar Management Institute, DMIMS, NIT-GSM, Wanjari College of Management, S B Jain Management were also prefered by most of the students.
There are 58 Engineering colleges comes under Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University or Nagpur division with total intake of 23,702 and around 19,000 students were eligible to apply. With the relaxation, it was expected that the number of eligible candidates would increase to a great extent.
Any student who has secured 45% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at HSC examination could secure admission in Engineering College. The eligibility norm has been scaled down from minimum 50% in PCM to 45% in PCM for general category students. For backward class students the norm were relaxed from 45% to 40%, apparently due to mismatch between number of engineering seats and number of eligible students. In Common Entrance Test, the student should have non-zero marks.
Dr Dhote said that, the reason behind increased vacancy is the process was somewhat complicated. There were 100 options for students and out of those three were mandatory. Because of this the allotment in the first round itself was heavy but the number of students reporting institutions was less. Now as the three preferences were mandatory, and if the students do not want to take admission then that remained vacant. So such kind of vacancies were created and the vacancy number increased.
In the region there are 23,935 diploma engineering seats and 9185 remained vacant. In MBA, the total seats are 5220 and 1928 seats remained vacant.
There are 23,702 seats in 58 engineering colleges which are affiliated  to RTMNU. But as per statistics given above all are not filled up through CAP. In case of government institution all seats are filled up through CAP. The colleges who did not maintain quality of education had to face the vacancy problem. According to one expert, around 20 engineering colleges may close down in two or three years.


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How seats are distributed?

There are three categories of colleges, viz. Private minority institution, private non-minority institution and government institution. The distribution of seats done- in case of Private minority institution- 51% seats are for minority students, 20% seats are of management quota, out of remaining 29% seats, 15% are filled up by the students who appeared for All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) and only 14 per cent seats are filled up through Centralised Admission Process conducted by Government.
Many times colleges are unable to fill minority quota. Such colleges surrender their vacant seats to CAP round. In Private non-minority institutions again 20% seats are for management, from remaining 80 per cent, 15% goes to  AIEEE and 65 per cent are filled up through CAP.

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Cut-throat competion and fake marksheet scam

Though the change in eligibility criterion was a welcome step for students, according to experts it will affect engineering results next year. This time overall First year engineering result was very poor, thanks to increased intake and new engineering colleges which started last year and fared very poorly. Because of having examination centres at their own colleges some of them tried to allowed mass copying in first year examination so that maximum students would pass and they can good results. Because of cut-throat competion for admission to first year the fake marksheet scam came to the fore. Finally four Application Receipt Centres have been canceled. These kind of things have marred engineering field. But G R Thakre, Joint Director, Technical Education handled the situation properly.


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Seats position in Nagpur division

Faculty           Intake         CAP             Vacancy        % vacancy

Engg              23702        18,759               7501            40
Poly               23935        19833                6011            46
MBA               5220            3994              1928            48