(a) the total number of Engineering Colleges in the
country, State-wise;
(b) the number of free and Payment seats available in
these colleges;
(c) the total intake of various courses in these
colleges; and
(d) the number of applications pending for approval to
set up new engineering colleges, State-wise?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (PROF. RITA VERMA)
(a) to (c) : Details of Engineering Colleges along with
intake of students approved by the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE) in the country, State-wise,
are given in Annexure. While all the seats in the
Government institutions are ‘free seats’, as per the
regulations notified by the AICTE, 50% of total seats in
every private unaided college imparting technical
education is earmarked as ‘free seats’ and the remaining
50% seats as ‘payment seats’.
(d) : As per the information furnished by the AICTE, out
of 2350 applications received by them for granting
approval to set up Engineering Colleges during 2002-2003,
Letters of Intent have been issued in respect of 243
institutions. Deficiencies observed in the remaining
applications have been communicated to the applicants.
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED
QUESTION NO. 3548 FOR 16.4.2002 ASKED BY SHRI SAVSHIBHAI
MAKWANA AND SHRIMATI BHAVNA CHIKHALIA REGARDING ENGINEERING COLLEGES
State / UT Number of institutions approved by the AICTE along with sanctioned intake.
Private Government Total
No. of Intake No. of Intake No. of Intake Institut Institut Instituti ions ions ons
Andhra Pradesh 166 44325 10 2425 176 46750 A&N Islands 00 00 00 00 00 00 Arunachal 00 00 01 210 01 210 Pradesh Assam 00 00 03 720 03 720 Bihar 02 600 04 735 06 1335 Chandigarh 00 00 02 460 02 460 Chattisgarh 07 1840 05 1360 12 3200 Dadra & Nagar 00 00 00 00 00 00 Haveli Daman & Diu 00 00 00 00 00 00 Delhi 08 1300 05 1650 13 2950 Goa 02 390 01 320 03 710 Gujarat 15 6015 08 3361 23 9376 Haryana 27 7300 06 845 33 8145 Himachal 01 200 01 210 02 410 Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir 03 640 02 525 05 1165 Jharkhand 03 430 04 1130 07 1560 Karnataka 99 35092 04 1533 103 36625 Kerala 12 2690 32 7964 44 10654 Lakshadweep 00 00 00 00 00 00 Madhya Pradesh 25 7080 09 2870 34 9950 Maharashtra 129 39450 18 4170 147 43620 Manipur 00 00 01 150 01 150 Meghalaya 01 180 00 00 01 180 Mizoram 00 00 01 120 01 120 Nagaland 00 00 00 00 00 00 Orissa 30 7445 06 1220 36 8665 Pondicherry 04 1270 01 420 05 1690 Punjab 12 3260 10 2060 22 5320 Rajasthan 19 4507 05 1477 24 5984 Sikkim 00 00 01 340 01 340 Tamilnadu 213 60535 16 5672 229 66207 Tripura 00 00 01 160 01 160 Uttar Pradesh 56 14490 18 3981 74 18471 Uttaranchal 04 1000 06 1130 10 2130 West Bengal 23 5040 15 3499 38 8539
Total 861 245079 196 50717 1057 295796