Engineering is a profession, which people in most parts of the country opts out for their future, expecting for the multitude of scopes and a valuable degree to get a job and mostly a livelihood of their own. Engineering colleges nurture their students with a varied possibility to choose from and contribute in several fields that they are capable of pursuing further with an engineering background.
Engineering may be one of the most desired career options in today’s time, in India, but still many of the engineering colleges, 75 to be precise, are concluding their journey in the academic year 2019-2020. The maximum number of engineering institutes are set to end their run is reportedly in Uttar Pradesh, according to Press Trust of India. The reason for this ‘progressive closure’ of such colleges is a result of a decline in the number of admission in a single academic year and also funding of this institutes are going down as well. The ‘progressive closure’ of 75 colleges includes; 31 in Uttar Pradesh, higher than any other state; Punjab to shut down 6; Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujrat to close 4 each; while Rajasthan, Odisha, Maharashtra, and Telangana will close 2 colleges each.
By the ‘progressive closure’, they will stop taking new admissions from the upcoming academic year, without affecting the studies of current students. The college will run without new admissions and will let the students pursuing engineering from these colleges complete their graduations until they completely down their shutters. In the previous academic year, 54 institutions opted for closure, while on the 2017-18 academic session 106 institutions closed down. There are currently 264 engineering
colleges and institutes and 116 Architecture colleges are operating without approval from the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).
