Courses with few takers to be scrapped

All centrally-funded technical institutions, including the renowned Indian Institutes Of Technology were told to close down centres and courses which have got few takers by the human resource development. This will include courses and branches which have witnessed a decline in the past three years. It has also asked the institutions to introduce new courses and disciplines after analyzing market opportunity, employability and requirement of higher education.

This information was shared by the Minister of State for HRD, Mahendra Nath Pandey in response to a written question in the RS on Thursday. “All Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs), which are participating in joint counsellings have been asked to review position of vacant seats in the last three years and to revise the number of seats in each discipline after considering employment opportunities, national requirements, available infrastructure and scope for future,“ the minister said.