50,000
engg seats likely to go vacant
Mumbai: With supply outstripping demand for the engineering course, once again
this year thousands of seats will remain unfilled. One in every three seats
will have no taker.
The
states Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) received about 1.15 lakh
applications from students for around 1.62 lakh seats across engineering colleges.
Though the number of seats in engineering has gone up by almost 7,000,the total
count of applications has risen by only 2,000 compared to last year.
The growth of new...