The Ministry of Human Resource Development(HRD) has directed all centrally-funded technical institutions including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology to close down its centres and courses which doesn't have enough students enrolled.
While the ministry has specifically pointed out a decline in number of application such institutes and courses in the past 3 years, it has also asked to introduce new courses after analyzing market opportunity that will generate employment opportunities for students, reported The Times of India.
Responding to a written question in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for HRD, Mahendra Nath Pandey said that all Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs), which are participating in joint counsellings have been asked to review the position of vacant seats in the last three years.
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He added that they have also been asked to revise the number of seats in each discipline after considering employment opportunities, national requirements, available infrastructure and scope for future.
"New courses and disciplines may be introduced only after analysing market opportunity, employability and requirement of higher education/ research/ entrepreneurship. CFTIs may also consider closure of some disciplines or keep them in abeyance for a few years after following the due process," he said.
According to a TOI report, after the joint counselling ended for IITs, NITs, IIITs and other government-funded technical institutes ended last year, 73 vacancies were left in IITs, bulk of them (38) in IIT-BHU.
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In case of NITs (National Institutes of Technology), there were 1,518 vacancies.
