Hyderabad: Electronics and Instrumentation, Industrial Production, Metallurgy, Chemical Engineering, Bio-medical, Bio-technology and Aeronautical Engineering are some of the courses that 78 private engineering colleges are not willing to continue in the next academic year.
Student intake is not as desired for these courses and it is proving to be a burden for college managements to meet expenses relating to faculty and staff wages, infrastructure and laboratories etc.
According to Mr N. Goutham Rao, the president of Telangana Private Engineering and Professional Colleges Managements Association, institutions will have no option but to stop new intake of students for courses losing their sheen.
“Even core courses like Mechanical and Civil are not getting filled in few of the private colleges. Filling seats in top private colleges is not a problem. But the situation is entirely different in the rest of the colleges that were newly established,” he said.
However, there will be no problem for students who are currently pursuing such courses in these colleges. Second, third and final-year students will be allowed to complete their courses, but no new admissions will be done.
Nearly 3500 UG seats and 1600 PG seats will be removed from the overall quota of seat vacancies that will be listed before counselling commences in June. This is a routine process every year, said JNTU officials. Colleges submit a letter to AICTE, which asks for a NoC from JNTU. Once the certificate is given, AICTE finalises the decision to reduce seats, they said.
