As per All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), it has received a total of 228 applications for engineering colleges and 891 applications for pharmacy colleges from across the country.
With the new academic year beginning soon, the state may not get too many new engineering and pharmacy colleges. Thanks to the increase in number of vacant seats in colleges over the years, that has resulted in a cold response from those wanting to start new colleges. As per All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), it has received a total of 228 applications for engineering colleges and 891 applications for pharmacy colleges from across the country.
The applications from Gujarat has been quite low, as compared to states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh and others. A total of 15 applications, 10 for engineering and 5 for pharmacy has been received by the AICTE as against 600 from Uttar Pradesh, 93 from Maharashtra, 54 from Madhya Pradesh, 42 from Rajasthan and 21 from Chhatisgarh.
Speaking about the same, Dr Navin Sheth, Vice-chancellor, Gujarat Technological University said, "In my opinion, there are enough colleges in the state so the number of applications of new colleges for engineering and pharmacy seems fine to me. There are a total of 130 engineering colleges and 75 pharmacy colleges, and there are a lot of colleges in which seats remain vacant. From 72,000 seats, only 32,000 had got filled. This could be the reason that not many are interested to start new colleges."
However, if we look at the national scenario, then new college application from Gujarat is quite low as compared to Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh. The issue of vacant seats is not just in Gujarat but across the country, the craze for engineering has reduced. UP has nearly 200 pharmacy colleges, despite that, 565 new colleges have applied. In such a scenario, why would other states be having a high number of new college applications is something to be looked at."
In 2018, 62% of the seats of Masters in Engineering in the state had remained vacant. Nearly 27 colleges of the 139 had got less than 10% of seat allotment whereas, overall, nearly 45% of seats remained vacant after the mock round analysis. A senior professor of IIT Gandhinagar said, "The craze for engineering and medical has faded a long time ago."
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