After the first round of counseling of Bachelors of Engineering (BE) in Tuition Fees Waiver (TFW) pool, many seats remained vacant of the scheme. This is the first time when TFW seats have remained vacant in the engineering college of the State. More than 100 seats remained vacant in different colleges statewide.
According to the guidelines of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), five per cent seats in every technical degree and diploma courses are reserved for students belonging to families with annual income less than of Rs 4.5 lakh only. Out of the total one lakh seats of BE in the state around 5000 seats are reserved for the students with less than Rs4.5 lakh family income.
Under the scheme, only tuition fees is waived and only domicile of Madhya Pradesh are allowed to apply. Every year the counseling for the TFW pool scheme are organized before the counseling of general pool seats. It is worth mentioning that for last several years it has been witnessed that all the TFW scheme seats get filled in the first round of counseling only but this year the decreasing interest in engineering was evident by seats remaining vacant ubnder the TFW scheme also.
lack of interest in engineering braches like Computer Science (CSE), Information technology (IT) and Electronics and Communication (E) was witnessed in the Vacancy after allotment list of TFW scheme. In many of the colleges 50 per cent seats of the TFW pool of CSE, IT and EX remained vacant.
While all the seats of government engineering college have been filled, private colleges are facing lack of interest in engineering among students.
Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) Joint Director lN Reddy said that seats will be filled up in the next round of counseling and many students will be also upgrade on the vacant seats.