The State Government decided to increase seats in five Government engineering colleges and Vir Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Burla on Monday. The total number of seats in the VSSUT and the five Government engineering colleges would be increased by 1,035. These five engineering colleges are the Keonjhar Government College of Engineering in Keonjhar, Kalahandi Government Engineering College in Kalahandi, College of Engineering and Technology (CET) in Bhubaneswar, Parala Maharaja Engineering College in Gajapati and Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang in Dhenkanal district. The seats would be increased in the BTech, MTech, MSc and Integrated Dual Degree (IDD) courses. The Government also decided to allow the students to take admission in the additional seats from the current academic session.