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

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, only 85,501 candidates had sought admissions Of these, 79,599 were allotted seats till the last round of admissions on this Tuesday According to Indian Express, while 79,599 candidates were allotted seats, not all will confirm their admissions Similarly, last year too, 41 per cent, or 56,000 of the total seats were left vacant at the end of the admission process Measures taken not showing results The situation has not changed even after a number of measures to reduce vacancies and fill up seats were introduced by the Directorate of Technical Education. This year, no new seats in engineering colleges have been added, which is a first in five years. Read: Students from IITs, IIMs bag over 100 per cent higher salary packages than any other engineer or MBA graduate: Survey Read: IIT Hyderabad launches 3 more All-Course MTech Programs in Biomedical, Chemical and Material Science Engineering