Gujarat loses 2,000 seats in government engineering colleges
There is some bad news for students seeking admissions to engineering courses. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has disallowed admissions on the 1,400 seats in six public-private partnership (PPP) colleges. 
The state government had decided to start PPP engineering colleges last year and filled up the seats as it expected AICTE approval to come through. However, AICTE realised that these seats were filled up without its approval and shot back a letter stating that since colleges in Vadnagar, Jamnagar, Navsari, Porbander, Amreli and Surendranagar were not approved last year, there was no question of granting them recognition.
Another 600 seats in Rajkot, Morbi and Surat were also in trouble for the same reason.
This has put the Joint Admission Committee for Professional Courses (Technical) in a dilemma as the last round for making changes in preferences given by students was July 9. Officials said that if the colleges were given approval at the eleventh hour, it would have delayed the entire admission procedure. The government has already initiated process of getting the seats back for this academic year itself.
Earlier, there was an increase of 6,230 in state colleges. In the nine new self finance college the total seats was 2,580 while the remaining 3,650 seats were in the existing colleges.
Director, technical education RB Pirzada said the government was in constant touch with AICTE officials to get the seats back and admit the students this year.
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