Only 9 lakh of 18 lakh UG and PG engg seats filled in 2015-16

As against a total intake of 18,22,932 seats in undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses, only 9,15,196 seats were filled during the academic year 2015-16.
The information was provided by Minister of State for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
In a reply to another question, Pandey said that at the end of Joint Seat allotment in 2016, 73 seats in IITs, 23 seats in IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 1518 seats in NITs, 407 seats in IIITs and 1174 seats in other centrally-funded technical institutions were vacant.
In order to reduce the vacancies, six rounds of seat allotment were carried out in 2016, the minister said in his reply.

In a reply to another question, Pandey said that JNU has reported that there are 308 vacant faculty positions at various levels.