Empty seats in engineering education may lead to permanent shut down of engineering colleges in Rajasthan

Empty seats in engineering education may lead to permanent shut down of engineering colleges in Rajasthan

The field of engineering education in Rajasthan is going through the worst phase of its time. Once the most sought-after field of education is now witnessing more than 25000 vacant seats. The state has around 39000 seats combined from the various fields of engineering and this year only 14000 seats were filled by the students and rest are lying empty in search of new students. Rajasthan is witnessing continues decline in the admissions of the students in engineering field since the year 2012. Once on the boom, the state had a total of 65000 seats to offer alone in the engineering but, the downward trends in hiring and recession in the engineering field forced many students to think of alternative degrees. The above-mentioned causes lead to the shut down of 40 engineering colleges in Rajasthan in the last year alone. In an attempt to fill the seats, the state organized various rounds of counseling but was only able to fill 12000 seats. The rest 2000 seats were filled under the management quota by the colleges only after the government gave them the permission to admit the students directly. Engineering aspirants from Rajasthan have always focused more on getting admissions in the government engineering colleges but this year almost 50 percent of the seats under 13 government colleges are still vacant. 13 government colleges in Rajasthan have a total of 5996 seats to offer of which 2569 seats were filled by the students through counseling and 538 more were filled only through admissions. 25 private engineering colleges have declared zero session this year and many others have requested the government to permit them to open a school in the college premises. Sridhar Singh, Secretary of Rajasthan Engineering College Association said that a large number of students are still interested in pursuing engineering as a career but the government’s decision to give approval to a large number of private players in the field has come to bite them.

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