More engineering aspirants are likely to realize their dream of studying in the country's premier technology institutes this year, with the IITs readying to increase their intake by 460, taking the total number of seats to 11,032 from 10,572.
The seats will mostly be added in the new IITs.
The IITs in Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Ropar, Jodhpur, Patna, Indore, Mandi and Jammu have sent their proposals to their respective senates and the Joint Entrance Examination Board. The final seat matrix for the 2017-18 academic year will be brought out by the JEE board once the senates clear the proposals, which, say officials, is the most likely outcome.
"This shows that these IITs have been able to improve their infrastructure and can now accommodate more students," said Y Udaykumar, co-ordinator of the Joint Seat-Allocation Authority of the IITs and National Institutes of Technology. There are other IITs, like the ones at Dharwad, Goa and Tirupati, which still operate out of rented campuses and have not been able to hike their student strength. Besides, none of the older IITs has sought a hike in seats, hinting at a space crunch in these institutes.
There is only one possible hurdle to a hiked intake: some of the IITs going in for scrapping some of the unpopular courses, where seats have gone vacant.
"In a meeting on February 3, the HRD ministry gave the go-ahead for closure or suspension of some of the unpopular disciplines in order to cut down on seats going vacant," an IIT official, who attended the meeting, said on condition of anonymity. The HRD ministry , in fact, has directed all centrally funded technical institutes that participate in joint counselling to revise their seat strength only after a proper review of vacant seats, employment opportunities, national requirement, faculty strength and available infrastructure.
"The senate of each institute is likely to take a decision in this regard within 31st March 2017," the official said.
(Source: The Times of India, Kolkata dated 2017-02-19)
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