Intake marks 10-year-low, GoI to continue moratorium for new Engineering Colleges: Union Education Minister

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | December 13, 2021 IST

New Delhi, Dec 13: Intake of students in Engineering and Diploma has marked a 10-year-low as per the findings of an AICTE Committee. The Reddy Committee formed to review on restoring Engineering Colleges has recommend to continue the moratorium on establishing new Engineering Colleges, said Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday. Discussing the status of Engineering Education of the nation, in the Parliament today, Pradhan Said, “The Committee has held three meetings in this connection and reviewed the Engineering Capacity, Enrolment and Placement Data over the last three years in Engineering Institutions. In the light of low enrolments into the Engineering and Diploma programmes across the country, the Committee in its interim report submitted in December, 2021 recommended to continue the moratorium on approving new Engineering Colleges in the country barring a few exceptions,” According to Pradhan, the total approved intake in the AICTE approved engineering institutions has declined from 26,95,333 from academic year 2012-13 to 23,66,728 in academic year 2021-22. The intake was 24,42,948 in 2020-21 while it reached 25,39,682 in 2019-20. Similarly, the Ministry of Education recorded, the enrolment remained low over the last three years. As against the intake capacity of 24,42,948 in 2020-21, only 12,75,880 enrolment were reported. Similarly, in 2019-20, only 14,10,683 students were enrolled against the 25,39,682 seats, and in 2018-19, only 14,16,319 out of 27,11,068 available seats were filled up. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2018 constituted the committee headed by BVR Mohan Reddy, the Chairman of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, to recommend short term and medium term prospective plans for engineering education in India. In 2019, the Reddy committee advised AICTE to stop setting up new colleges from the academic year 2020 and “review” the creation of new capacity every two years after that. The committee observed that the capacity utilisation in engineering colleges during 2017-18 in undergraduate and postgraduate level was at 49.8%. The committee’s recommendation became relevant when when engineering colleges in India recorded a 10-year-low in the number of seats being offered in this  academic year. At the same time, over 340 colleges between 2018-19 and 2020-21 were informed to be closed under compulsion of registration related crisis.

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