Over 45 per cent seats vacant in AICTE approved engineering colleges
6 years, 7 months ago

Over 45 per cent seats vacant in AICTE approved engineering colleges

India TV News  

Over 45 per cent seats vacant in AICTE approved engineering colleges 239 applications were received by AICTE from engineering and technical institutes for closure, out of which 51 institutes were granted letter of approval. The Lok Sabha on Monday was informed about the vacant seats in All India Council for Technical Education approved engineering colleges across the country. Over 45 per cent seats in colleges remained vacant in the last four years. 48.79 per cent seats remained vacant during 2014-15 academic session, while 47.68 per cent, 49.70 per cent and 49.30 per cent seats remained vacant during 2015-16, 2017-18 and 2018-19 respectively, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satya Pal Singh said.

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5,707 seats in engineering colleges filled in final round of admissions in Andhra Pradesh
7 months ago

5,707 seats in engineering colleges filled in final round of admissions in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

Director of Technical Education and convener of Andhra Pradesh Engineering, Agriculture and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test - 2024 G. Ganesh Kumar has said that 5,707 vacant seats in engineering colleges were filled in the third and final round of admissions in the State. He said of the total 7,074 seats available under the convener quota in the engineering colleges affiliated …

NGO alleges malpractices by Anna varsity, AICTE in inspection, affiliation of engineering colleges
8 months ago

NGO alleges malpractices by Anna varsity, AICTE in inspection, affiliation of engineering colleges

The Hindu  

At least 352 full time teaching engineering faculty are associated to more than one engineering college affiliated to Anna University at the sametime in the academic year 2023-24, a survey by Arappor Iyakkam found. The non-governmental organisation’s survey of the data of faculty members in the University’s website revealed that several hundred full-time teaching faculty are on the rolls in …

Over 44% of engineering seats remained vacant in Gujarat in 2023: Govt
1 year ago

Over 44% of engineering seats remained vacant in Gujarat in 2023: Govt

Hindustan Times  

More than 44 percent of engineering seats, including self-financed institutes, in the state, were left vacant in 2023, the Gujarat government told the legislative assembly on Thursday. More than 32 percent of seats in Master of Business Administration and Master of Computer Application courses that account for 7,742 seats remained vacant in the previous year. Also, more than 32 percent …

AICTE Removes Cap on Intake for 'Well-performing' Engineering Institutes
1 year, 3 months ago

AICTE Removes Cap on Intake for 'Well-performing' Engineering Institutes

News 18  

The All India Council for Technical Education has allowed “well-performing” existing engineering institutions under it to increase student intake without any upper limit, provided the quality of education is maintained. Among the major changes brought by the council, are removing the upper limit on intake for courses offered by “well-performing” existing institutions. While AICTE has allowed an increase in intake …

AICTE approves 21,900 seats in 300 institutes for working professional
1 year, 4 months ago

AICTE approves 21,900 seats in 300 institutes for working professional

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education has approved 21,900 seats in over 300 of its affiliated technical institutes to offer undergraduate, masters and diploma programmes to working professionals this academic year. The council, in July, allowed technical institutes to offer Bachelor of Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Masters of Technology, and diploma programmes to working professionals. According to …

of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions: 10% Seats Filled in First Round - CSE, AI & DS, ECE, IT Most Popular Branches
1 year, 7 months ago

of Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions: 10% Seats Filled in First Round - CSE, AI & DS, ECE, IT Most Popular Branches

The Hindu  

In the first round of counselling under the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions committee, as much as 10% of the seats have been taken. Among the colleges, SSN College of Engineering in Kalavakkam had filled 92.51% of its seats in the first round itself. Of the 523 seats in the self-financing autonomous college, 484 seats have been filled, including the seats …

AICTE approves new engineering colleges, launches semi-conductors UG courses
1 year, 8 months ago

AICTE approves new engineering colleges, launches semi-conductors UG courses

Live Mint  

All India Council for Technical Education has approved proposals of 89 engineering colleges across India, News18 has reported. This comes after in March, AICTE lifted moratorium on opening of new engineering and technical colleges from the 2023-24 academic session. Earlier, the technical education regulator had imposed a two-year ban from the academic year 2020-21 on opening of new engineering institutes …

AICTE academic calendar for 2023-24 out, 1st year classes from September 15
1 year, 11 months ago

AICTE academic calendar for 2023-24 out, 1st year classes from September 15

Hindustan Times  

Classes for first year students of institutes approved by the All India Council for Technical Education has to begin by September 15, as per information shared by the council in the academic calendar for 2023-24. AICTE academic calendar for 2023-24 out September 15 is also the deadline for first year admission and lateral entry to second year courses of Engineering …

One-Third Seats in AICTE-Approved Undergraduate Engineering Institutes Vacant, Shows Ministry Data
2 years, 3 months ago

One-Third Seats in AICTE-Approved Undergraduate Engineering Institutes Vacant, Shows Ministry Data

News 18  

At least one-third of the total sanctioned seats in undergraduate engineering institutions approved by the All India Council for Technical Education are lying vacant. “The filling up of seats in engineering institutes is dependent on a demand-supply situation which is dependent on the location of the institutes, academic and infrastructural facilities therein and the placement opportunities,” Dr Sarkar, cited as …

Proposals for 43 engineering colleges approved
2 years, 7 months ago

Proposals for 43 engineering colleges approved

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education has approved at least 43 proposals for setting up new engineering colleges across the country, including one by a Central university in Puducherry, this year, officials said on Tuesday. Last year, the BVR Reddy committee — set up by the technical education regulator to explore ways to overhaul engineering education — …

Highlights from the Lok Sabha Question Hour
2 years, 8 months ago

Highlights from the Lok Sabha Question Hour

The Hindu  

During Question Hour in Parliament, which is in the midst of its monsoon session, Ministers answer questions posed by other Members of Parliament on administrative issues. This week, Lok Sabha members revealed several noteworthy data nuggets, eight of which are discussed below: Share of electric vehicles in India There were 13,34,385 electric vehicles in India as of July 14, 2022. …

‘Ban on new engineering colleges to continue for 2 more yrs barring exceptions’
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Ban on new engineering colleges to continue for 2 more yrs barring exceptions’

Hindustan Times  

The All India Council for Technical Education has extended the moratorium on setting up new engineering institutes for two more years with certain exceptions, according to its chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe. "The AICTE has extended its moratorium on establishing new engineering institutes up to two years with certain exceptions," Sahasrabudhe said. The exceptions include state government proposal to start new polytechnic …

10,780 seats vacant in IITs in two years, Govt tells Rajya Sabha
3 years, 1 month ago

10,780 seats vacant in IITs in two years, Govt tells Rajya Sabha

Hindustan Times  

A total of 10,780 seats remained vacant across different courses in the country’s Indian Institutes of Technology in the last two academic sessions, the Centre informed Parliament on Wednesday. In a written response to a question by Bharatiya Janata Party member in Rajya Sabha Vikas Mahatme, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan submitted the last two years’ data of vacant seats …

36% of engineering seats go unclaimed after KEA counselling
3 years, 2 months ago

36% of engineering seats go unclaimed after KEA counselling

The Hindu  

As many as 23,001 or 36% of government and government-aided engineering seats have been left vacant after the third round of counselling by the Karnataka Examinations Authority. Numbers likely to go up Sources in KEA said that the number of vacant engineering seats would further increase after the counselling process for medical and dental seats was completed. A principal of …

Panel advises government to keep ban on approving new engineering colleges
3 years, 3 months ago

Panel advises government to keep ban on approving new engineering colleges

Hindustan Times  

A committee set up to look for ways to overhaul engineering education in the county in 2018 had earlier advised the government to put a moratorium on granting approvals to new engineering colleges for two years starting 2020, and now in its interim report, it has recommended continuing the freeze barring some exceptions, the union ministry of education told the …

TANCET admissions end with 82% seats vacant
5 years, 6 months ago

TANCET admissions end with 82% seats vacant

The Hindu  

Around 82% of the seats for postgraduate programmes in engineering colleges in the State will go vacant this year. The counselling for Tamil Nadu Common Admissions was held this week and of the 15,574 seats in the State, as many as 12,801 remained vacant. AICTE’s decision to alter the faculty-student ratio from 1:20 to 1:25 also played a part, a …

AICTE directs new engineering colleges to shift temporary campus to permanent
5 years, 8 months ago

AICTE directs new engineering colleges to shift temporary campus to permanent

India Today  

Days after the HRD Ministry said it will adopt a zero-tolerance policy towards states that fail to allot land for IITs and IIITs, technical education regulator AICTE has made it mandatory for new engineering colleges operating out of temporary campus to shift to permanent premises within two years. "The new technical institutions functioning in a temporary campus will have to …

Professors from IITs, NITs to inspect engineering colleges in TN
6 years, 1 month ago

Professors from IITs, NITs to inspect engineering colleges in TN

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: For the fair assessment of engineering colleges and their infrastructure in the state, Anna University has roped in professors top engineering institutions like IITs and NITs in the annual inspection committees for the first time. Totally, 560 institutions - 477 engineering colleges, 42 stand-alone architecture colleges, 37 MBA and 4 MCA stand-alone colleges applied for renewal of affiliation to …

More than 45 per cent unoccupied seats persists in engineering colleges, says HRD
6 years, 7 months ago

More than 45 per cent unoccupied seats persists in engineering colleges, says HRD

India Today  

In a recent report by Ministry of Human Resource Development, it has been concluded that the engineering colleges approved by All India Council for Technical Education endured more than 45 per cent unoccupied seats across the country in the last four years. Information about vacant seats: According to Satya Pal Singh, the minister of State for Human Resource Development, 48.79 …

AICTE identifies 277 fake institutions functioning in India, Delhi tops with 66 such institutions
6 years, 7 months ago

AICTE identifies 277 fake institutions functioning in India, Delhi tops with 66 such institutions

Op India  

Union Ministry of State for Human Resource Development Satya Pal Singh while responding to a question in the Lok Sabha earlier this week said that it has identified as many as 277 colleges offering engineering and other technical studies degrees without All India Council of Technical Education approval. National capital Delhi tops the list with 66 such colleges whereas Telangana …

More engineering colleges want to shut shop: AICTE
6 years, 8 months ago

More engineering colleges want to shut shop: AICTE

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUCHY: The All India Council for Technical Education has introduced common entrance examination nationwide for B.E. He said while many states accepted the AICTE’s attempt, States like Tamil Nadu and West Bengal vehemently opposed this move. He said that there are 3,300 Engineering colleges and 3,000 polytechnics in the country of which 50 per cent seats go unfilled in these …

50,000 seats in Maharashtra's engineering colleges remain vacant
6 years, 8 months ago

50,000 seats in Maharashtra's engineering colleges remain vacant

India Today  

Going by current statistics, Maharashtra students seem to be losing interest in taking up engineering courses. As many as 50,000 seats set to remain vacant in engineering colleges of the state this year, and this decline trend has been observed since the last five years. Vacancies remain high since 5 years: Stats Out of the 1.30 lakh seats this year, …

Lack of eligible students may push AICTE to cut 1.36 B Tech, M Tech seats from engineering colleges
6 years, 11 months ago

Lack of eligible students may push AICTE to cut 1.36 B Tech, M Tech seats from engineering colleges

India TV News  

The lack of eligible aspirants is likely to spell doom for thousands of engineering colleges across the country. As per reports, if AICTE decides to go ahead with the move, at least engineering institutes with over 24,000 seats will have to close their doors, while 494 colleges will discontinue their undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programmes. Meanwhile, a professor at Harcourt …

AICTE sends notice to 800 technical institutes to shut down if seats aren't filled
7 years, 1 month ago

AICTE sends notice to 800 technical institutes to shut down if seats aren't filled

India Today  

According to AICTE notice, as many as 800 technical institutes, including around 80 run by the government, may face closure if they do not find enough students to fill their seats as they have been served notice for poor performance. Institutes with less than 30 per cent seats filled will be closed down: As per the NDTV reports, AICTE Chairman …

Government institutes among 800 sent notice for closure by AICTE
7 years, 1 month ago

Government institutes among 800 sent notice for closure by AICTE

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: As many as 800 technical institutes, including around 80 run by the government, may face closure if they do not find enough students to fill their seats as they have been served notice for poor performance, technical education regulator AICTE said on Monday. Faced with a large number of institutes which are not able to fill their seats, …

Dwindling jobs: AICTE to promote startups among engineering grads
7 years, 2 months ago

Dwindling jobs: AICTE to promote startups among engineering grads

Deccan Chronicle  

BELAGAVI: All India Council for Technical Education Chairman Dr Anil Sahasrabudde has stressed on promoting startups as it is essential to turn engineers into entrepreneurs with jobs in large industries dwindling. “AICTE is putting its energies on creating the right environment to promote entrepreneurship among engineering students, as there seems to be no way out other than promoting startups among …

AICTE bars Delhi college from admitting students due to lack of infrastructure
7 years, 4 months ago

AICTE bars Delhi college from admitting students due to lack of infrastructure

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education has barred GB Pant Engineering College here from admitting students for the academic year 2017-18 as it lacks basic facilities and infrastructure. The apex regulatory body for technical education, in its notice, stated that the college lacks facilities like research labs, sick room, common room for boys and girls and placement …

Engineering students to study big data, bullet trains from next academic session
7 years, 5 months ago

Engineering students to study big data, bullet trains from next academic session

Hindustan Times  

Steam engines are passé. India has more than 3,000 registered engineering institutes, which produce an estimated 7 lakh engineers every year, but barely half of them manage to get hired on campus. These latest technological advancements will be part of a revised engineering syllabus — to be introduced from the academic session starting next July — in an attempt to …

More engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana likely to be shut
7 years, 6 months ago

More engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana likely to be shut

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: More engineering institutions in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are likely to stop operations as the All Indian Council For Technical Education wants to close down 800 colleges across India. AICTE chairman Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, on last Friday, reportedly told mediapersons in Bengaluru about the council’s plan to close down 800 colleges across India. The decision could have an impact …

Government junks plan to introduce common engineering entrance exam
7 years, 7 months ago

Government junks plan to introduce common engineering entrance exam

India TV News  

The Human Resource Development Ministry has decided to junk the plan of introducing a common engineering entrance exam from next year. The All India Council of Technical Education, the country's technical education regulator, had announced in March that a national-level common entrance examination for engineering colleges would be conducted from the next academic year in 2018. Taking a cue from …

Engineering seats to go vacant this year too?
7 years, 10 months ago

Engineering seats to go vacant this year too?

The Hindu  

Managements of top engineering colleges across the State are worried that the delay in the announcement of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test results will see students surrender their engineering seats for placements in medical colleges. While this is a trend that repeats itself every year, the delay may see the exodus occur at a later stage this time when it will …

Layoffs and shrinking job market: Is this the end of India’s engineering dream?
7 years, 10 months ago

Layoffs and shrinking job market: Is this the end of India’s engineering dream?

Hindustan Times  

A month ago, Himanshu Sharma was asked by his company, Cognizant, to resign. Headhunters India says that job cuts will be around 200,000 annually, for the next 3 years JOBS SHRINK ABROAD TOO 70% of H-1B visas went to Indians in 2015, mostly for technology jobs. There are also 23 IITs, 31 NITs and 20 IIITs BUT QUALITY OF ENGINEERS …

Out of 8 lakh graduate engineers, 60 per cent remain jobless in India
8 years ago

Out of 8 lakh graduate engineers, 60 per cent remain jobless in India

India Today  

Engineering is on the verge of losing its attraction as a top career option mainly for Indians. According to All India Council for Technical Education, out of the eight lakh graduate engineers from technical institutions in the country, more than 60 per cent remain unemployed. In addition to this, reports reveal that just 15 per cent of 3200 institutions offer …

Govt plans single entrance exam for all engineering colleges from 2018
8 years, 3 months ago

Govt plans single entrance exam for all engineering colleges from 2018

Hindustan Times  

The government is considering conducting a single entrance examination for admission to all engineering colleges, including private institutions, across the country. The proposed joint entrance examination for engineering colleges, which is said to be human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar brainchild, could kick in from 2018. Some of the private colleges admit students without basic talent and aptitude for engineering, …

Over 15,000 engineering seats remain vacant in Karnataka
8 years, 7 months ago

Over 15,000 engineering seats remain vacant in Karnataka

The Hindu  

After the second extended round of the Common Entrance Test – 2016 counselling, 15,561 seats have remained vacant in major engineering streams. “Every year, thousands of seats remain vacant in smaller engineering colleges across the State, even after multiple rounds of counselling,” said S.N. Among the popular streams, 3,861 seats are vacant in mechanical engineering across colleges, 3,887 in electronics …

Engineering seats go begging in Kerala
8 years, 8 months ago

Engineering seats go begging in Kerala

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: The predicament of the self-financing engineering colleges in the state continues with 28 of them not getting any student in one or two branches after the deadline ended on Saturday for taking admission under the second allotment process of the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations for 50 percent seats. In the Thrissur-based Sree Ernakulathappan College of Engineering where allotment was …

SC pulls up AICTE for delaying approval to technical colleges
8 years, 9 months ago

SC pulls up AICTE for delaying approval to technical colleges

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the All India Council for Technical Education for delaying grant of approval to technical colleges and violating the schedule fixed by it for the purpose. We are not sitting here for nothing, “, a vacation bench of justices PC Ghose and Amitava Roy said after counsel for Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University …

757 technical education courses shut down in 2015
9 years, 6 months ago

757 technical education courses shut down in 2015

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Colleges across the country are shutting down courses in technical subjects such as engineering even as India’s apex technical education regulator, the All India Council of Technical Education, looks to stem a decline in the quality of such education. As much as 45% or 345 of the technical education courses closed so far this year are in Telangana …

80,000 seats fall vacant in engineering counselling
11 years, 8 months ago

80,000 seats fall vacant in engineering counselling

The Hindu  

Even as nearly 80,700 seats in engineering colleges have found no takers, academicians attribute three factors to the development. The factors are: All India Council for Technical Education sanctioning new engineering colleges in areas where there are already too many; approvals for additional seats in any stream of engineering in existing colleges, and the surrender of “significantly high” number of …

Half of all engineering seats in TN lie vacant
11 years, 8 months ago

Half of all engineering seats in TN lie vacant

The Hindu  

There’s barely a week left for engineering admissions to be completed, but nearly half the seats in institutions across the State are still vacant. According to official data on this year’s engineering admissions, 46 per cent or 93,982 of the 2,05,268 seats in over 525 government, government-aided and private institutions affiliated to Anna University, have no takers. This year, there …

‘Demand for engineering colleges has come down’
11 years, 10 months ago

‘Demand for engineering colleges has come down’

The Hindu  

The demand to set up engineering colleges has come down in the country, Nagaraj, head of the department of civil engineering, Shridevi College of Engineering and Technology, Tumkur, has said. “The All-India Council for Technical Education received 2,176 applications to set up engineering colleges in 2011-12. Inaugurating the programme, Basavarajaiah, Dean, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, said students should opt …

22 colleges go without admissions
12 years, 5 months ago

22 colleges go without admissions

The Hindu  

The number of zero admission colleges rose to 22 after the second phase of allotments on Tuesday while the number of vacant seats in the convenor quota were 1,06,371, including 98,218 engineering seats, and 8,153 pharmacy seats. Candidates who were allotted seats in colleges that received less than 20 admissions in the first phase preferred to change and choose colleges …

One lakh engineering seats vacant
12 years, 6 months ago

One lakh engineering seats vacant

The Hindu  

Raising questions over survival of several engineering colleges in the State, 1,00,392 seats remained vacant in the Convenor quota after the first phase of counselling that was completed on Friday. Out of the 2.10 lakh candidates eligible for admissions this year only 1.37 lakh candidates attended certificate verification of which 1,34,373 lakh students were allotted seats. While seats in government …

AIEEE admission process goes online
15 years, 9 months ago

AIEEE admission process goes online

Hindustan Times  

The admission process, for almost 24,000 engineering and architecture seats all over India, for students who cleared the All India Engineering Entrance Examination went online for the first time. The process covers seats at all 20 National Institutes of Technology, five Indian Institutes of Information Technology, 11 central and state-funded universities, and 19 self-financed institutes. The process will affect around …

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