Hyderabad, July 12th: The All India Council for Technical Education has given approval to 70 new engineering colleges in the state this year. With the establishment of these new engineering colleges this year the number of engineering seats has risen to 2 lakh and engineering colleges to 610, the highest in the country. The state has now surpassed Maharashtra, TN and Karnataka which had the largest number of colleges. All these states have less than 1.25 lakh seats each now.
From a mere 6,500 seats in 32 colleges in 1994, AP has come a long way. This happened after private management’s were allowed to set up engineering colleges by TD government in 1995. About 240 colleges came up in 1995 alone, taking the total number of seats to 35,000. The colleges increased to 350 in the TD tenure. Congress government which came into power later also encouraged private engineering colleges. It approved 150 new colleges during the last academic year alone and 70 this year.
During the last academic year, there were 540 engineering colleges in the state with an intake of 1, 74,232 seats. With the AICTE’s (All India Council for Technical Education) latest decision, the number of seats goes up to 2 lakh. Interestingly, there are only 8.5 lakh engineering seats in the entire country.
New Delhi, July 12th: The metro bridge under construction collapsed in Jamrudpur of southeast Delhi early Sunday morning. Six persons including five laborers and site engineer were killed and more than 15 other laborers injured in the incident. Owning “moral responsibility” for the inci...
Hyderabad, July 12th: The Chief Minister, Dr. Y.S Raja Shekar Reddy, decided to allot more seats under the management quota in professional colleges in the state. This is meant to pacify college managements whose demand for a fee hike was rejected by the government. The MCA, MBA, Pharmacy and B.Ed ...
Hyderabad, July 12th: Online counseling for Eamcet engineering admissions has worried many students and parents, especially those who are not very tech savvy. Though the students have hundreds of options in terms of colleges and courses, the officials have given time of only three days to make a ch...
Kakinada, July 12th: A helpline service is being set up to monitor SC, ST atrocity cases at the collectorate in East Godavari district. In addition to this the district administration will regularly monitor assistance being extended over the issue with active participation of both revenue and polic...
Rajahmundry, July 11th: With the rise in Godavari water level the tourism department has given green signal to tour boat operations from Sunday. The operations were suspended 10 days ago due to an alarming fall in the water level in the river. The authority notices the rise in water level to seven ...
Hyderabad, July 13th: The SSC Board will put an end to the marks system and likely to introduce grades system from this academic year 2009-10. The board will also do away with the term “fail” while awarding certificates. The officials propose to replace the term “fail” wit...
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