More than 60 per cent of the seats in engineering colleges across the State are lying vacant. Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Premananda Nayak informed this in the Assembly on Saturday.
In a written reply to Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati, the Minister said that currently a total of 93 engineering colleges with 31,174 seats are functional in the State. In the 2019-20 academic year, admission was held for a total of 11,745 seats and the remaining 19,429 are lying vacant since then, Nayak added.
He further informed that besides engineering colleges, the State has 163 diploma institutions. While three engineering colleges have approached the Government for their progressive closure, a diploma college has already been closed.
