For those seeking technical education, there's some bad news. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has decided to reduce 11,000 seats for the academic year 2006-07.
The step was taken after an inspection exercise that revealed inadequate infrastructure, faculty deficiency and violation of norms. Of the total 4,224 technical education institutes in the country, AICTE inspected 3,270.
“The remaining are under different stages of process and final decision will be taken soon,” AICTE’s vice-chairperson R A Yadav said. The council reduced intake in 404 institutes and put 45 institutes under no-admission category.
“No admission will be allowed in these 45 institutes for the next academic year. In future, admission can be allowed if deficiencies are removed as per our satisfaction.
Institutes where intake has been reduced, can get the status restored if they submit the compliance report by May 31,” he said. If the figures are compared with admissions last year, the maximum reduction is in engineering and technology courses.
