AICTE green signal to seven new engg colleges

Updated on: Thursday, June 16, 2011

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has given its green signal for seven new self financed engineering colleges in the state. Each college will have an intake of 300 students for the Bachelor of Engineering (BE) courses.

The AICTE has also increased the intake of an engineering college near Kheda. The SFI college will now have the capacity to admit 360 students. Earlier the college had an intake of 240 students.

With the increase of 2220 seats, the state will now have the capacity to admit 39,323 students in the various branches of Bachelor of Engineering courses in 98 colleges. Earlier the state had the intake of 37,103 in 91 colleges.

Officials of Joint Admission Committee for Professional Courses (JACPC) said that the JACPC has received the letter approving these colleges. The officer said these approved colleges are situated in Khedbrahma, Kim-Olpad, Vaghodia, Dhari, Rajkot, Siddhpur, Valiya and Bharuch. Officials said about 18 colleges had sought approval of AICTE. He said this was first set of colleges which have been approved by the AICTE.

In the second phase, there is a possibility of another six colleges getting the AICTE approval. JACPC officials said that about 50,000 students have applied for admission to the engineering courses against the capacity of 39,323 seats.

Officials said after the first phase of the mock round, it was clear that no seat at least in engineering colleges would fall vacant. JACPC officials have advised the students not to make a bee line for the admission on the 15 per cent management quota.

The officials said that almost all students would get admissions in the engineering and pharmacy colleges and hence they should wait for the admissions to get completed.

Times of India

AICTE green signal to seven new engg colleges

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