Over 260 engineering seats are still vacant at Jadavpur University this year, and the number has increased over the past fortnight as many students have left for institutes they consider to be higher.
Veteran teachers of Bengal’s most effective engineering college stated there was a time when college students by no means had the idea of quitting JU after they secured admission. That belief has changed. India now has 23 IITs that provide over 12,000 BTech seats every year. That itself, in line with many, is a huge draw. A multiple-5th of the BTech seats have remained vacant after the joint front exam board had achieved the counseling for the engineering institutes that ended on July 20. JU has 1,273 engineering seats.
The university will conduct counseling on August sixteen, 18, and 19 to fill the vacant seats. A veteran professor said the seats might get filled up through the ensuing round of counseling, but the failure to retain vivid students could remain to haunt. “On the college’s website, I saw that BTech aspirants with ranks up to ten 000 were known for filling the seats. But that was now not the state of affairs in advance,” stated the trainer. The emptiness cropped up as the BTech aspirants, regardless of being allocated seats via the online counseling, did now not flip up between July 24 and August 6 to take admission.
A varsity reliable said that several aspirants allotted seats inside the coveted departments, including laptop science and engineering, electronics, and telecommunication engineering, did not take admissions and switched to the IITs. “One of our workers attempted to counsel an aspirant who got here to the campus to evaluate the capacity of laptop technological know-how and engineering. As he dropped a hint that he would now not be admitted at JU, the employee tried to steer him to take admission at JU. He stated that he could take admission at an IIT that has to arise new,” stated the authentic.
Parthapratim Das, an instructor of computer technological know-how and engineering at IIT Kharagpur, said it turned into a count number of concerns that seats at JU, which turned into inside the rivalry for the group of eminence tag along with IITs and different vital institutions, have been going vacant. “I can remember that, while my son turned into attending counseling to secure a berth at an engineering institute in Bengal in 2007, I was fervently hoping that he would make it to JU. So it’s miles a rely upon the problem that such many seats are finally vacant. I am certain that the government will probe the reasons,” said Das.
Das admitted that the IITs and NITs had been eliminating students from JU. “A BTech aspirant might get swayed via the IIT badge. However, one has to remember that the companies, even when making recruitments, should sound out whether or not the interviewee is from the older IITs or the more modern ones. It is likewise proper that some of the NITs are acting quite well,” said Das. Another IIT Kharagpur teacher stated that JU had to discover whether some disciplines were registering many vacancies due to low job prospects. In that case, JU needs to rationalize the seats, he said. Chiranjeevi Bhattacharya, one of the pro-vice-chancellors, said they could soon meet to find the reasons for the vacancies.
