There are few courses at the IITs and NITs which are not
sought after like most other courses, hence HRD Ministry has decided to either
discontinue or reduce the number of seats.
Of late, addressing the seat vacancy issues at the premier
engineering institutes has become a primary agenda in the field of technical
education in India. Taking into account the huge number of seats left vacant at
the IITs and NITs recently, HRD Ministry has setup a three-member committee to
look into the matter, lead by Partha Pratim Chakraborty, IIT-Kharagpur Director
.
The huge number of vacant seats even at the end of six
rounds of joint counseling at the premier institutes last year had prompted the
HRD Ministry to decide this move. There are nearly 3000 seats together vacant
in the premiere institutes. It is guessed the committee will place its reports
and recommendation before the IIT Council and NIT Council for their approval.
Panel recommendations are as follows: Instead of bringing
down the not so popular courses, the panel recommends forcing some penalty if
some applicant withdraws from the course or joins the course late. A penalty of
50 percentage of the application fee can be imposed on the students who do not
comply with direction. The committee also recommends NITs to resolve the issue
by converting state quotas to general seats in case of vacancies even after the
rounds of counseling. 50 percent of seats at NITs are reserved for domiciled
students as of now. Since the state quotas are not utilized most seats in the
northeast states NITS lay vacant most of the times. There were about 1500
vacant seats across the NITs last year. Since the JEE rank is no longer
calculated based on class 12 marks the seat allocation process will start early
as per the report issued by the committee.
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