like Engineering, students also seem to be getting increasingly disinclined towards the Science stream. This is noticed from the admission trend in Science in the Plus II colleges of Sundargarh district.
After the final round of e-admission for Plus II colleges, a total of 6,079 seats are vacant in all the three streams of the 71 institutions, including residential colleges, in the district. While in Science, 3,608 seats are lying vacant out of 6,660, in Arts out of 9,076 seats, 1,183 fell vacant. And in Commerce, a total of 1,288 seats are vacant out of 2,720.
Interestingly, in all the three Ekalavya Model Colleges not a single admission was held. A similar situation has arisen in the Government (SSD) Higher Secondary School, Balishankara where all the 128 seats are vacant.
Above 75 per cent of the seats in many colleges of Rourkela and its surrounding is also lying vacant. In the steel city, a total of 2,344 seats are vacant in 20 colleges. While 262 seats fell vacant in Arts out of a total strength of 2,932, it is 1,467 out of 3,076 in Science and 615 out of 1,632 in Commerce.
Though the Rourkela Steel Plant-managed Ispat Vidya Mandir is affiliated to the CHSE, Odisha but its admission process is different as this institution is meant for wards of RSP workers.
According to reports, after completion of the third phase of e-admission in the Government Autonomous Junior College, 14, 29 and 10 seats are vacant in Arts, Science and Commerce, respectively, out of 164, 320 and 128 seats. It is 25, 46 and six out of 256, 256 and 256 in the Municipal College, 30, 31 and 13 out of 384, 128 and 1128 in the Rourkela Junior College, 31, 50 and 39 out of 128, 256 and 256 in the Ispat Junior College, 6, 50 and 55 out of 192, 96 and 96 in the College of Arts, Science and Technology (Junior), Bondamunda, 25, 125 and 30 out of 192, 164 and 64 in the Neelasaila Mahavidyalaya, 24, 85 and 167 out of 256, 128 and 256 in the Vedavyas College, 15, 96 and 66 out of 256, 128 and 128 in the HK Ray Mahavidyalaya, 4, 93 and 61 out of 128, 128 and 128 in the Gandhi Mahavidyalaya, 20, 111 and 57 out of 128, 128 and 64 in the Kalyani Ray (Junior) Mahavidyalaya, Hamirpur and 17, 107 and 48 out of 128, 128 and 64 in the Utkal Gourav Madhusudan (Junior) Mahavidyalaya.
While 37 seats in Arts fell vacant out of 432, it is 28 out of 256 in Science in the SG Women’s Junior College, five out of 192 and 55 out of 64 in the Priyadarshini Mahila (Junior) Mahavidyalaya and nine out of 96 and 63 out of 96 in the Subodh Ray College. In the Dr Ambedkar Memorial +2 (Junior) Residential College, 80 seats are vacant in Science out of 96 and 63 out of 64 in Commerce.
The situation in residential colleges is the worst. While in the Naidu Junior College, 103 seats fell vacant out of 128 in Science, it is 57 out of 64 in the NM Junior College, 113 out of 128 in the Prakruti Science College and 41 out of 128 in the Chaitanya College of Education, Panposh Road.
Curiously, many seats are lying vacant in the Chinmaya Vidyalaya, which most often gave 100 per cent results in the HSC examinations in last many years and more than 80 per cent of its students get first division. According to figures, 94 seats are vacant out of the 128 here.
Besides, while 102 seats are out of 128 in the Govt. Junior Science College, Kutra, it is 186, 246 and 251, respectively, in Arts, Science and Commerce out of 256, 256 and 256 in the NIrmaan Junior College, Biramitrapur. In the Om Maa Saraswati Institute of Science and Technology, Rajgangpur 101 seats are vacant in Science out of 128 while in the Rourkela Institute of Technolgy, Kuarmunda 94 seats in Science and 93 in Commerce are vacant out of 96 seats each.
Now, the only hope for many colleges is spot admission. It may be noted here that classes started from July 14.