Lots of empty seats in professional courses even after a second counseling
September 15th, 2011
Following is an excerpt from a report in Telegraph.
At the end of the first phase of web counselling for engineering courses, around 12,000 of the 38,000-odd seats were filled up. The huge number of empty seats forced the state government to conduct another round of counselling “to fill up as many seats as possible”. However, OJEE authorities said just about 3,000 more candidates have shown interest in admission, which still leaves more than 23,000 seats vacant.
… The faulty and lengthy e-counselling process has put off many aspirants, forcing them to look for other options,” said the principal of a city-based engineering college.
For the medical courses, the second phase of centralised counselling ended last evening. Although MBBS and BDS (dental) seats in all the three government colleges were filled up, 70 of 100 BDS seats at the Hi-Tech (private) Medical College here were still lying vacant.
There are 150 MBBS seats each in the government colleges – VSS, Burla, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, and MKCG, Berhampur. At Hi-Tech, there are 100 MBBS seats and all of them have been filled up. This year, a total of 2,203 medical aspirants had qualified the OJEE and the first phase of counselling was conducted on July 14 and 15.
In other streams, only 40 to 60 per cent seats have found takers. Approximately 4,000 of the 7,000-odd MBA seats and 2,000 of nearly 4,000 MCA seats are up for grabs. In pharmacy, around 1,200 out of 2,000-plus seats are lying vacant.
With much more seats than the number of students, the government, OJEE and BPUT authorities need to simplify and shorten the process of counseling. They may also consider scrapping the OJEE exams in the various fields, except the medical part.
Entry Filed under: Engineering and MCA colleges,Odisha JEE, AIEEE, BPUT counseling, etc.
5 Writeup
1. CET Alumnii | September 15th, 2011 at 7:55 am
The state wide media must present the facts on the status of current technical education in Orissa to meet the aspiration of thousands of bright students in the state. The poor bright students are deprieved of pursuing studies in Govt. Engineering colleges because of faulty policy of adopting e-admission since last year. One must ask why Govt. colleges could not fill up all seats last year through e-counseling.
This is disheartening to note this year the status of student intake in Govt. run lead Engg. college CET under BPUT. More than 50% of its intake having score above 2000 in OJEE which has never happened since its inception? It’s a matter of serious concern. Why best students are not opting for the lead Govt. Engg. college in the state capital? Is it not the faulty admission policy?
There has been a huge fall in performance of CET under BPUT in last 10 years. It was certainly much better performing under OUAT for 20 years since 1981.
It is very surprising that the 5-year degree course in Architecture running in only Govt. college CET without any admission this year. Last year less than 50% of its total strength of 40 could be filled up even much after the completion of OJEE counseling. The only private college at Cuttack offering the same course having strength of 200 does not find problem of filling up the seats.
There needs a thorough investigation on the functioning of CET, the lead Govt. college under BPUT to meet the expectations of thousands of aspirants.
CET Alumnii
2. Chandra | September 16th, 2011 at 4:28 pm
There is now serious lack of interest in Technical Courses in Orissa, though cause can’t be attributed to single factor
3. ranjan | September 17th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Its not just the lack of technical education..but the claims made by each and every other engg college that they are diffrent.Its like teh automobile industry where all the car models available in india are car of the year.There cant be more than one car of the year in each segment but it only happens in india.So the tall claims made by the engg colleges are finally showing up the truth.The colleges which were set up 10 years back are finding it hard to survive leave behind the colleges which came up in the last 4 years.I am afraid if teh IITB may face a similar fate but its too early to say.But i know some students personally who are studing in present IITs of Delhi and Bombay.They say rather then selecting a new IIT we would prefer to go to an already established NIT or a private reputed engg college.So the present scenario is not encouraging for new engg colleges of Orissa and yes the BPUT has to play a major role only if the govt supports as its also in its own problems thanks to some influential persons having there own engg colleges.They will never allow the branch office of BPUT to move out of BBSR as they are afraid of some business oriented concerns.If BPUT is esblished atleast some of the problems will be solved if not all.I am not sure what is preventing the state govt to finish up the never ending construction of the univ at Rourkela.
4. CET Alumnii | September 17th, 2011 at 9:08 am
http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/6908-cet-performance-going-downhill-under-bput.html
Judging by the trend of admissions in recent years the College of Engineering and Technology (CET), the only Government engineering college in the city, appears to be losing favour among the students.
A large number of the high rank holders in the Odisha Joint Entrance Examinations seem to have preferred other institutes this year. This is raising eyebrows as the college used to be at the top of the list of favourite destinations among engineering aspirants till recently and was always considered a top performer.
The vacant seats in many branches of the institute has been attributed to the illogical process of e-counseling adopted this year which practically converted this year’s admission process into a lottery like situation where many Government institutes, including CET, have reported large number of vacant seats after the first round of admissions. But what has taken the cake is the 5-year degree course in Architecture in CET, which has reported near zero numbers this year while the institute at Cuttack with 200 seats has got a good response.
CET was established in 1981 under the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology. The downhill of the institutes’ performance is being attributed to its transfer to the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) 10 years ago.
The institute suffers from shortage of faculty but the situation has been exacerbated by a large number of its faculty being assigned administrative responsibility in BPUT. The administrative work is reportedly coming in the way of the faculty discharging their teaching activity. Currently the registrar of BPUT is a faculty member of CET and half a dozen others also are handling some responsibility or the other.
5. Chandra | September 19th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
In My view
1) No of colleges/seats are more than students available in Odisha eligible for technical education
2) No of credible colleges is very less, as every body says we are good
3) Govt colleges are not getting the right push from govt
4) Industry scenarios is bleak in Odisha for future years
5) College fees are going through the roof as compared to other professional courses, hence the loss of interest
When i passed there were very good numbers of ppl were recruited by companies setting industry in odisha like IOCL, VEDANTA, JINDAL etc, now since they have filled up their quota, no body else is coming.