MT CET 2013: More than 50,000 vacant after the Third Counselling!

Published On: 29-Jul-2013,

As per the data provided by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, around 50,603 seats are vacant at the end of the third round of the MT CET 2013 Counselling. More than 2.80 lakh students had appeared for the MT CET 2013 examination for admissions to the engineering courses in the state. Out of these, not even half have taken up admissions. The figure is slightly higher from last year when around 44,000 seats were left vacant.

As per reports, two new engineering colleges were atrted in the state while the intake in the existing ones was increased with more than 10,000 seats. This decision came on the heel of the AICTE’s permission to increase the capacity with a second shift. Around 7,500 seats have been cancelled voluntarily by the colleges as per the latest reports.

A first for leading colleges like VJTI, Mumbai, and CoE, Pune where vacancies lead to a third round of admissions while IITs and NITs admissions were late on account of the controversies dogging the CSAB allotments and percentile issues along with other delays. Even the IITs witnessed an extra round of admissions as many students opted out of branches they didn’t like but were allotted. According to the DTE statistics, students have given the least preference to branches like IT and electronics and telecommunications (E&T) while the maximum preference was for core branches like civil and mechanical

Region	Vacancies
Pune	15,201
Nagpur	8,862
Kolhapur	5,934
Marathwada	4,202
Amravati	3,972
Solapur	3,567
North Maharashtra	3,285
Mumbai	3,241
Rama Tirth	1,571
Gondwana	768
Total	50,603