The AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education), a National level committee for technical education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) informed on Monday that it has closed 128 engineering colleges across the country since 2016.
The report was shared by the Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ during the winter session of Parliament. He notified that a total of 26 engineering colleges have been closed in the academic year 2018-2019. Although, there was a decline in the number from 47 in 2017-2018 and 55 in 2016-2017.
The number of closed engineering colleges in the last three years is higher in Telangana with 26 followed by Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with 14 each.
As per the reports, there are 37 Lakh engineering seats available across the country at 10,371 institutions among which 10 lakh seats are vacant and with AICTE shutting colleges down, less than 30% engineering seats have been filled in the last five years. The HRD Minister informed there is no proposal for setting up of new engineering colleges in India.
They were closed due to the ‘fake’ engineering colleges offering engineering and other technical courses ‘without the approval of AICTE’.
Closed college list should have crossed 1000