After completion of admission process, Maharashtra as usual has witnessed 46% seats remaining vacant in First year of Bachelor of Engineering (BE). After taking several measures by State Government, the vacancy in engineering course is not going down. Similarly, BArch, too, faced around same percentage of vacancy. Unlike last year, surprisingly, 20% seats remained vacant in MBA. Last year, MBA seats were filled completely. Over the period of years, a lot of engineering seats are going vacant. Government has taken so-called measures, but those have not yielded any result. It had constituted a committee that had suggested certain steps, still the vacancy position did not improve. Basically, students are opting colleges which have enhanced their quality, which have good placement result. Unfortunately, most engineering colleges are suffering financial crunch as the State Government has not released the amount to be disbursed to the colleges against various scholarships.

 

With increasing financial burden, most colleges have failed to maintain the quality. But this year even top colleges too had to wait for getting all seats filled. There are very few colleges which don’t have to take efforts to get students come to their colleges. Of the 1,25,488 seats, 57,727 seats are vacant in B.E first year. There are several new rules too are marring the admissions in some courses. For example, ‘Only NATA score’ has become the solid reason for fall in registration by students aspiring to get admissions to Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) course. Council of Architecture (COA) had posted prior information that only the score of National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) would be held valid for the admissions to B.Arch. People didnot pay heed to it and they went for Joint Engineering Entrance (Arch) (JEE II).

 

With result of NATA was not so good plus a few people appeared in NATA, the number of students fulfilling the criterion laid out by COA has come down drastically. In B.Arch there are 4,557 seats, out of which 2,138 are vacant. Courses like B.Pharm too has faced the vacancy issue as 63% seats in this course are vacant. Bachelor of Hotel Management and Catering Technology (BHMCT) has total intake of 816 of which 485 are vacant. Three years ago, most MBA colleges had reduced the number of seats resulting in no seat remained vacant. With rising demand of this course some colleges increased their intake leading to 20% seats remained vacant this year.