Even as the second phase of counselling for admission in the 47 engineering colleges of the State is going on, 9,700 seats of state quota is still vacant in these colleges. According to the branch-wise list of vacant seats issued by the technical education directorate, highest number of vacant seats is of general category, whereas, SC, ST, backward classes category reserved seats are very less in the list.
In the first phase of counselling total 12,080 seats had allotted. looking to the less number of admissions during the first phase, the government had extended the last date for admission thrice, but 5,300 seats are still vacant.
For the first time the state government has implemented 58 per cent reservation in both government and private engineering colleges, in which 32 per cent is for scheduled tribe, 12 per cent for scheduled caste and 14 per cent seats for other backward classes.
According to the list issued by the technical education directorate, in civil branch, 5 general, 1 ST and 2 SC; in computer science 17 general, 4 ST and 2 SC seats are vacant in BIT Durg. In computer science branch 37 general and 10 OBC; in mechanical branch 4 general, 8 ST and 4 SC seats are vacant in Chhatrapati Shivaji College.
Similarly, in Rungata Bhilai, 7 unreserved, 4 ST and 2 SC seats in civil branch, 12 unreserved, 9 ST and 2 SC seats in mechanical branch are vacant. In Shankaracharya Engineering College Junwani, all the unreserved seats of civil branch are vacant, while 2 seats each are vacant for ST and SC category. In Chhattisgarh Engineering College Rajnandgaon19 unreserved seats in mechanical branch
are vacant.
Similarly in Disha College Raipur 33 seats unreserved seats are still vacant. Similarly, 3 SC seats and 28 OBC seats are vacant in the mechanical branch. In all other engineering colleges in the state most of the unreserved seats are vacant.