UGC's directive to put closure on opening of new engineering colleges was welcomed by private engineering colleges in Coimbatore who already find it hard to fill their seats.
With no more seats from any more colleges, existing institutions feel that they have a better chance to fill their seats. Students now will have only the existing options for admission to engineering colleges and with greater number of applicants.
City colleges continue to struggle to fill seats forcing many such institutions to surrender their seats to the university.
University Grants Commission (UGC ) has appealed a one year delay for starting of new technical colleges or starting new courses by the existing ones.
University Grants Commission (UGC ) has appealed a one year delay for starting of new technical colleges or starting new courses by the existing ones.
In a letter to the Vice Chancellors of all Universities, UGC has mentioned that this is in continuation of the earlier communication vide D.O. No. 14-9/2013 (CPP-II) dated August 7, 2013 of University Grants Commission. It is also in view of the pattern of enrolment in colleges providing technical education vis-a-vis the approved intake capacity thereof over the last couple of years (data collected from AICTE)
Universitie's spree of affiliating more and more colleges and the accreditation boards indiscriminate granting of permissions to start new institutions and increase seats in existing ones has caused this problem .
With reputed colleges reciecing the permission of increasing the seat count, it increasingly became the first choice of students and the new colleges which left not so popular colleges struggling to fill their seats. Addition on new colleges will increase the seat count even more intensifying the problem.
The announcement of UGC hence came as a breather among the institutions facing tough times.
original source :- India today
