With the completion of fourth round of counselling, the work of counselling for admission in engineering colleges of Chhattisgarh has been completed but even after four rounds of counselling, around 6,000 seats have been left vacant.
Out of which seats of three streams – Information Technology, Computer Science and Electronics and Telecommunications, were the one which faced the dislike of applicants. Only a few students has opted these streams in a number of colleges this year, sources said. Notably, for the admission in 50 engineering colleges of the state, the technical education department organised four round of counselling and allotted seats accordingly but in the last nearly 6 thousands seats remained vacant.
In most of the colleges while seats of Mechanical, civil and electrical streams got filled easily, there were no takers for the seats of IT, CS and E&T. Even in government engineering colleges, seats of these three streams remained unfilled. According to information provided by Technical Education department, 54 seats belonging to IT and CS in Kirodimal Institute of Technology, Raigarh, 33 of CS, 54 of E&T and 54 of IT remained vacant in RIT Raipur, and 54 seats of CS and 53 seats of IT remained vacant in CCET Bhilai. likewise, seats of these three branches had only few takers in Chhattisgarh Institute of Technology, C V Raman Institute, Disha Institute, M M College of Technology, CIMT Bhilai, Rungta College Bhilai, Mats College Arang and other engineering colleges of the State.