IIT JEE:No takers for 217 IIT seats:
KOLKATA: IIT may no longer be the last word in tech education. The exalted institute is left with 217 vacant seats even after three rounds of counselling. since they were not lapped up by undergraduate students.
The counselling process came to an end at 16 IITs across the country recently and they have been forced to contend with these vacancies despite their best efforts to fill up the seats.
And this, despite three rounds of counselling that the IITs have done in their bid to fill up as many seats as possible.
Till a couple of years back, the IITs would hold only one round of counselling since they thought it to be beneath their dignity to keep counselling for such premium seats open for too long. But times have changed. With the number of IITs going up to 16 and that of the seats to 10,000, from 4000 in 2006, the entire IIT undergraduate pedagogy has changed.
While the admission chairpersons at the IITs say that the number of vacant seats has been far less compared to last year, the IIT faculty at the older institutes like Kharagpur, Delhi, Powai and Madras rue the fact that there has been a 'watering down' of IIT education with the Union ministry of human resources development deciding to open the new IITs. Last year the number of vacant seats was 322, while in 2011 a whopping 757 seats remained vacant.
"As the number of IIT seats increased, the post counselling vacant seats became an issue. Till a few years back, we used to have just one counselling but since a large number of seats remained vacant, the MHRD directed us to do three rounds of counselling so that the number of vacancies reduce. And it has worked. This year we only have a little over 200 vacant seats," explained H C Gupta, IIT JEE chairman at IIT Delhi, which organized the entrance exam this year.
The streams where most of these vacancies exist are, mining, metallurgy, architecture, geophysics, chemical engineering and tech courses related to bio-sciences.
"No matter how many rounds of counselling take place, these vacancies are hard to fill would not have been filled up because these subjects are not being preferred by students these days since jobs in these fields are drying up," Gupta explained.
The IITs have a total 9885 seats, of which 9678 could be filled up at the end of three rounds of counselling.
While the rest of the IITs will be able to reveal their individual vacancies on Wednesday evening, at IIT Kharagpur, 1308 of 1341 seats could be filledgot taken. Last year at IIT Kgp, 48 seats remained vacant at the end of the third round of counselling, confirmed the vice chairman of IIT JEE here, M K Panigrahi.
The IITJEE chairpersons of all the 16 IITs will meet in Delhi on Wednesday to compare their final tallies and close the admission process for this year.
From an infallible brand like IIT, this might sound unbelievable. The exalted institutes of tech teaching have 217 seats that have gone abegging because they were not taken by undergraduate students.
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KOLKATA: IIT may no longer be the last word in tech education. The exalted institute is left with 217 vacant seats even after three rounds of counselling. since they were not lapped up by undergraduate students.
The counselling process came to an end at 16 IITs across the country recently and they have been forced to contend with these vacancies despite their best efforts to fill up the seats.
And this, despite three rounds of counselling that the IITs have done in their bid to fill up as many seats as possible.
Till a couple of years back, the IITs would hold only one round of counselling since they thought it to be beneath their dignity to keep counselling for such premium seats open for too long. But times have changed. With the number of IITs going up to 16 and that of the seats to 10,000, from 4000 in 2006, the entire IIT undergraduate pedagogy has changed.
While the admission chairpersons at the IITs say that the number of vacant seats has been far less compared to last year, the IIT faculty at the older institutes like Kharagpur, Delhi, Powai and Madras rue the fact that there has been a 'watering down' of IIT education with the Union ministry of human resources development deciding to open the new IITs. Last year the number of vacant seats was 322, while in 2011 a whopping 757 seats remained vacant.
"As the number of IIT seats increased, the post counselling vacant seats became an issue. Till a few years back, we used to have just one counselling but since a large number of seats remained vacant, the MHRD directed us to do three rounds of counselling so that the number of vacancies reduce. And it has worked. This year we only have a little over 200 vacant seats," explained H C Gupta, IIT JEE chairman at IIT Delhi, which organized the entrance exam this year.
The streams where most of these vacancies exist are, mining, metallurgy, architecture, geophysics, chemical engineering and tech courses related to bio-sciences.
"No matter how many rounds of counselling take place, these vacancies are hard to fill would not have been filled up because these subjects are not being preferred by students these days since jobs in these fields are drying up," Gupta explained.
The IITs have a total 9885 seats, of which 9678 could be filled up at the end of three rounds of counselling.
While the rest of the IITs will be able to reveal their individual vacancies on Wednesday evening, at IIT Kharagpur, 1308 of 1341 seats could be filledgot taken. Last year at IIT Kgp, 48 seats remained vacant at the end of the third round of counselling, confirmed the vice chairman of IIT JEE here, M K Panigrahi.
The IITJEE chairpersons of all the 16 IITs will meet in Delhi on Wednesday to compare their final tallies and close the admission process for this year.
From an infallible brand like IIT, this might sound unbelievable. The exalted institutes of tech teaching have 217 seats that have gone abegging because they were not taken by undergraduate students.
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Source:Indiatimes
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