220 B.Tech seats go vacant in IITs

Updated on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Although three rounds of counselling were over, a total of 220 B.Tech seats went vacant in 15 IITs across India among which 17 were from IIT Madras.

In this academic year, there were 7,536 B.Tech seats available in 15 IITs across the country and 7,316 students have enrolled in various institutes leaving 220 seats not taken at the end of third round.

IIT Roorkee witnessed the most number of seats (63 out of 1,155) going without any takers, followed by IIT Kharagpur that had 55 seats vacant.

Out of the 838 seats available in IIT Madras, 821 students had joined the institute leaving 17 seats vacant.

IIT Ropar in Punjab, IIT Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, IIT Indore and IIT Hyderabad had the least (two seats each) number of vacant seats.

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