Recommended that the ban on approving new engineering colleges be maintained

Key sentence:

• Presently, it has suggested proceeding with the freeze notwithstanding a few special cases in its between time report.
• The board referred to low enrolment in designing and confirmation programs the nation over as the suggestion.

The board set up to search for ways of redesigning designing instruction in the province in 2018 had before encouraged the public authority to ban conceding endorsements to new designing universities for a long time beginning 2020. 

Presently in its between time report, it has suggested proceeding with the freeze notwithstanding a few special cases, the association service of schooling informed the Parliament on Monday.

The board referred to low enrolment in designing and confirmation programs the nation over as the explanation for the suggestion, the service said.

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in 2018 comprised the board headed by BVR Mohan Reddy, the director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, to suggest the present moment and imminent medium-term designs for designing schooling in India. The advancement came after AICTE saw that seats were lying empty in a few designing universities.

In 2019, the Reddy board encouraged AICTE to prevent setting up new universities from the academic year 2020 and “audit” the production of new limits at regular intervals after that. The board of trustees saw that the limit use in designing schools during 2017-18 in undergrad and the postgraduate level was 49.8%.

“The Committee has held three gatherings on 18.10.2021, 10.11.2021 and 30.11.2021 and checked on the Engineering Capacity, Enrolment and Placement Data throughout the most recent three years in Engineering Institutions. 

In the light of low enrolments into the Engineering and Diploma programs the nation over, the Committee in its interval report submitted in December 2021 prescribed to proceed with the ban on supporting new Engineering Colleges in the nation notwithstanding a couple of special cases,” serve Dharmendra Pradhan said in the assertion.

The board’s suggestion had come when designing universities in India recorded a 10-year-low in the number of seats being offered for the current year. 

Authorities had referred to the conclusion of the north of 340 universities between 2018-19 and 2020-21 and the restriction on the opening of no new schools as the purpose for the drop.

According to the information introduced by the priest, the absolute supported admission in the AICTE endorsed designing foundations has declined from 26,95,333 from the scholarly year 2012-13 to 23,66,728 in the academic year 2021-22. The admission was 24,42,948 of every 2020-21, and 25,39,682 out of 2019-20.

According to the information provided by the service, the enrolment stayed low in the course of the most recent three years. For example, against the admission limit of 24,42,948 out of 2020-21, just 12,75,880 enrolments were accounted for. 

Additionally, in 2019-20, just 14,10,683 understudies enrolled against the 25,39,682 seats, and in 2018-19, just 14,16,319 out of 27,11,068 accessible seats were filled.