More than 75 engineering and technical colleges which are preparing to shut down have opted not to admit students from this academic session, majority of them in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
The major reasons behind the institutions opting for closureare less takers for the courses or colleges and shortage of funds, a seniorofficial of the AICTE told PTI.
So far, 78 technical colleges have opted for”progressive closure” this year, the officials at the All IndiaCouncil of Technical Education (AICTE) said.
During the 2018-19 academic session, 54 colleges had chosenprogressive closure, while the number of such colleges was at 106 during2017-18.
“Colleges opting for progressive closure, stopadmitting fresh students and continue to function till the time the existingstudents graduate. Thirty-one of the colleges are based in Uttar Pradesh, whilePunjab has six of these colleges,” the senior official of the AICTE said.
“Among the colleges that will be shutting down, fiveeach are based in Chhattisgarh and Haryana, while four each are in Uttarakhand,Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Two colleges each are in Rajasthan,Telangana, Odisha and Maharashtra,” he said.As per AICTE statistics, there are 264engineering colleges that are operational in the country without approval fromthe council, while there are 116 architecture colleges functioning without theAICTE’s nod.