The higher education department issued a notification on Tuesday so colleges and universities offering four-year BTech courses can admit students on their own because a sizeable number of seats have remained vacant after the centralised counselling conducted by the state JEE board.
A board official said that out of 34,000-odd seats, around 16,000 seats have remained vacant after the three-round online centralised counselling that ended last month.
“A reasonable number of seats in such Professional technical courses are lying vacant. Therefore it has been decided by the state government in the Higher Education Department to allow all the institutions recognized by the Regulatory Authorities.... as the case may be, for admission of students through decentralized counselling and allotment process,” said the notice.
A JEE board official said at least 50 seats are vacant in the general category at Jadavpur University, which is regarded as the premiere institute in Bengal for studying engineering.
JU has 1,253 BTech seats across 16 disciplines.
“In the reserved category also 50 seats are vacant at JU. Most vacancies have cropped up in the private engineering colleges,” the board official told Metro.
This year, the JEE board started its counselling after the counselling for the JEE-mains, which is held for admitting students to the NITs and IIEST, Shibpur, among the institutes.
Despite this, the flight of enrolled students could not be averted.