Taking a leaf out of the Telangana mannequin, the Karnataka Larger Training Division is exploring choices of freezing the enhancement of Pc Science Engineering (CSE) seats in engineering faculties to deal with issues about unemployment and an imbalance between engineering disciplines.
Larger Training Minister Dr M C Sudhakar has cited Telangana’s comparable restriction, upheld by the Telangana Excessive Court docket, as a precedent. The transfer goals to curb the speedy improve in CSE seats, which has led to an oversupply of graduates amid a possible trade downturn and a decline in demand for conventional engineering fields like civil and mechanical.
Dr Sudhakar stated, “A number of faculties in Karnataka are indiscriminately rising laptop science seats, usually by changing civil and mechanical engineering seats, which have decreased demand, into CS seats. If this development continues, we’ll have lakhs of engineering graduates from CS and associated disciplines. Finally, the trade will face a disaster, the place most of them may very well be left unemployed.”
Not too long ago, the Telangana Excessive Court docket dismissed a batch of writ petitions filed by personal engineering faculties that challenged the federal government’s determination to reject proposals for elevated CS consumption for the 2024-25 educational yr. The courtroom upheld the state’s authority to control engineering training.
For the 2024-25 educational yr, Karnataka had 1,32,309 engineering seats throughout 245 faculties, with round 45,000 in CSE and associated programs. The surge, attributed to relaxed All India Council for Technical Training (AICTE) norms, has seen some faculties providing 1,500–2,000 CSE seats, usually by changing seats from different disciplines.
The variety of CET seats — the seats in faculties and universities the place frequent entrance check rating is taken into consideration for admissions — in laptop science and associated programmes stood at round 24,000 in 2021-22 and rose to roughly 39,500 final yr. In complete, there have been 79,907 CET seats throughout all disciplines final yr. The seat matrix for 2025-26 is but to be introduced. The expansion in CSE seats is basically pushed by sturdy trade demand and relaxed norms from the AICTE.
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