On Monday, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satya Pal Singh shared information about vacant seats in AICTE approved engineering colleges across the country in the last four years.
As a reply to one question, Dr. Satya Pal Singh said, “48.79% seats remained vacant during the 2014-15 academic session while the percentage of seats that remained vacant during 2015-16, 2017-18 and 2018-19 was 47.68%, 49.70% and 49.30% respectively.”
Minister Singh further said, “The actual enrolment in technical institutes is based on the demand-supply situation which is attributed to the location of the institute, research and infrastructure facilities and placement opportunities.”
As per the report published by a renowned news agency, AICTE had received 239 applications from engineering and technical institutes for closure out of which 51 institutes were granted letter of approval.

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