The unfilled and vacant BE seats seem to haunt the government and private management institution once again. With the admission round for professional course selected through Common Entrance Test(CET) and Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental colleges- Karnataka (COMEDK), entrance test having completed, the number of BE seats that have not been taken up by the students accounts to nearly 20,000. With the highest number of BE seats remaining vacant, it has become a herculean task for the private managements to fill up the seat as there are no takers.
In the CET quota, 6707 BE seats and in COMEDK quota 11,914 BE seat are vacant and not filled for the 2014-15 academic year.
According to MK Panduranga Setty, secretary, Karnataka Unaided Private Engineering Colleges' Association (KUPECA), of the total number of 18,733 BE seats in private colleges just about 6,819 seats were selected by the students.
"As many as 11,914 BE seats are unfilled in the private engineering colleges and approximately 7,000 seats are vacant in government colleges. There can be an increase in the number of unfilled seats as most students who have opted for seats in central institutions like Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) and National Institute of Technology(NIT) will also surrender the selected seats to the management, " explained Setty.
The Karnataka Examination Authority(KEA) had nearly 10,000 BE seats that were offered to the eligible CET candidates who have appeared for supplementary examination. Only about 3,190 BE seats were allotted to the supplementary candidates and the nearly 7,000seats are vacant in the government category.
Setty mentioned, "As per the court order and government direction, August 15 is the last date for the managements to conduct the counselling process for the unfilled seats. However the biggest tasks for private colleges, are the seats that will be given up by students who opt for IITs or NITs. Such seats which are the best ones in good institutions cannot find replacements as most students have already taken seats in other colleges. There are no students and even in management quota it is difficult for seats to be filled. The managements are at loss and we do not know how to cope up with the financial implication of unfilled seats."
The KUPECA secretary is hopeful that the new law which has been laid out by the higher education department might of reprieve to managements as it states that students who surrender the seats after the stipulated date might have to cough up the four year tuition fee to the colleges.
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