3,000 seats in top colleges stay vacant in Hyderabad institutes

Hyderabad: A total of 3,000 engineering seats in National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology and Government Funded Technical Institutes will remain vacant this year.

The pleas by JEE Main rankers to fill the seats were ignored, with the Central Seat Allocation Board announcing that it would not conduct another round of counselling.

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority had conducted six rounds of counselling earlier.

NITs now have 1,518 vacant seats, IIITs 407 and the GFTIs 1,174.