Pune: Several faculties beneath SPPU search permission to shut vocational programs

The Management Council of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) will take a call on the request of a number of faculties which have sought permission to close down programs and even total faculties in its assembly on June 26 (Saturday).

Permission hunted for closure of DY Patil College of Engineering and Innovation, Maval, which presents two programs of BE (Mechanical) and BE (Civil), Pravar Center for Management Research and Development of Vikhe Patil Foundation, which presents MBA course is. Admission capability of 120 college students, Bachelor of Architecture course at Upper Rural Education Society College of Architecture, Mohu, Indapur College of Architecture of Vidya Pratishthan and BE diploma in Electronics and Telecommunications at Gopinath Munde Institute of Engineering Education and Research, Nashik.

In the previous few years, as a result of falling demand for engineering, MBA, structure seats, faculties and institutes providing vocational programs throughout India are always closing down.

Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (CET) cell knowledge exhibits that round 45 per cent seats in first-year engineering programs are left vacant with over 95 per cent vacancies in personal unaided engineering institutes. Last 12 months, out of 55,000 vacant engineering seats, over 54,000 have been in personal establishments. On a median, at the least 50 engineering faculties are making use of for closure yearly, which additionally prompted the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to cease permitting new engineering faculties from 2020-21.

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For administration programs, one in each three obtainable MBA and MMS seats didn’t discover any takers within the educational 12 months 2020-21, exhibits CET knowledge.

Experts mentioned that this example might come up as a result of dwindling demand for such programs in addition to the inefficiency of vocational programs within the post-pandemic world.