8,517 seats still vacant in engineering colleges in Gujarat

According to the Supreme Court guidelines, the admissions into professional courses should get over by August 15.

AHMEDABAD: Now, less than 10 days are left to the deadline for engineering, pharmacy, MBA, MCA and Bachelor of Architecture admissions and still there are many seats left to be filled by the admission committee. According to theSupreme Court guidelines, the admissions into professional courses should get over by August 15.

As many as 8,517 seats are still vacant in engineering colleges after three rounds of admission. There are also 8,371 seats vacant in diploma to degree quota of seats which are available in second year of engineering. The pharmacy admissions are yet to begin. There are about 5,000 seats in pharmacy courses all over the state.

The admission committee had written a letter to the technical department, requesting it to grant one more round of admissions for courses such as engineering and BArch. The committee was, however, told that it would in violation of the Supreme Court order that admissions should be over by August 1. The technical department, it seems, was not aware that the last date for admissions is August 15.