1,000 institutes want to stop IT course

Updated on: Saturday, December 11, 2010

About a decade ago, engineering colleges across the country were falling over one another to pitch their information technology departments. Students queued up and companies lapped up virtually every graduate, making the new millennium the golden age for IT professionals.

In stark contrast today, a number of colleges are in the process of downing the shutters on their IT departments. According to data sourced from the All India Council for Technical Education, the overseeing body for professional technical education, one in every three institutes offering this course has sent in an application seeking to close it.

Close to 1,000 institutes have applied to AICTE to either close down their IT departments or convert the seats allotted for this to another discipline like mechanical or civil, said AICTE chairman S S Mantha. Taken aback by the large number of requests for closure, AICTE turned them down and asked colleges to get a no-objection certificate from their state governments and supplement it with their application.

1,000 institutes want to stop IT course

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