Hundreds of seats in engineering colleges has found no takers in Chhattigarh even after the first phase of counselling, official sources informed here.
After the first phase of counselling, 9,253 engineering seats were allocated to State’s 46 engineering colleges. But hundreds of students did not take admission and, as a result, these seats has been remained vacant till now. At present, the second phase of counselling was underway.After rejection of the State Government proposal to increase the engineering seats and opening of new colleges, counselling for 16,367 seats had begun in the first week of July under the All India and Management Quota.
While 9,253 seats were distributed, many students did not take admission. Official sources said the Government engineering college in Bilaspur has 21 seats in Mechanical, 42 in Computer Science, 63 in Electrical Engineering, 42 in Electronics and Telecommunication, 42 in Information and Technology and 21 seats in Mining engineering.
All these seats were filled up after the first round of counselling. Since there are many who did not take admission, some seats are laying vacant including in Mechanical and Civil engineering seats in this college.Officials expect to get these vacant seats filled up after second rounds of counselling.
Similar is the situation with other engineering colleges.In Jagdalpur engineering college, seats of half-a-dozen branches were allocated to students after first round of counselling but many of them still have not taken admission.This has prompted the authorities to announce the vacancy of seats for second round of counselling.
All Civil Engineering, Computer Sciences, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Telecommunications and Mechanical Engineering seats in Raipur engineering college were allocated after the first round of counselling.