A total of 1,004, or 36.6 percent, of the 2,744 sanctioned posts in 16 government engineering colleges and 986, or 28.5 percent, of the 3,463 sanctioned Class I-III posts in government polytechnics were as of December 31 year vacant. The Gujarat government informed the General Assembly on Monday.
State Minister for Higher and Technical Education Rushikesh Patel gave the information while answering a question about vacancies in government technical colleges by Congress MLA Arjun Modhwadia.
The minister’s answer stated that the main reasons for the vacancies being filled included dismissal, retirement, voluntary retirement, transfer to another job, promotion and death.
There are 2,744 Class I to IV sanctioned posts in 16 government engineering colleges, of which 1,740 have been filled as of Dec. 31, 2022, Patel said.
Of the 534 sanctioned Class I posts, 308, or about 58 percent, are vacant, while 13 percent, or 189 of the 1,467 sanctioned Class II posts, are vacant, he said.
It is 64.8 percent (310 out of 478) for Class III and 74.3 percent (196 out of 265) for Class IV posts, the minister added.
“Of the 986 vacant posts in the colleges, there are 84 Class I posts, 182 Class II posts and 720 Class III posts,” said Patel.
Patel, who also holds the health portfolio, said in his answer to a separate starred question that nearly 33 percent or 249 of the 744 approved Class I-IV posts in the government (PDU medical) university and hospital in Rajkot are vacant.
“The number of vacant posts at Sir T General Hospital in Bhavnagar is 61, or 7.5 per cent, out of 814 approved posts. For SSG Hospital in Vadodara, the number of vacant posts is 121, or 6.3 percent, out of 1,908 posts approved,” he said.
In the academic years 2021-22 and 2022-23, a total of 12,103 seats were filled, while 6,822 remained vacant in government technical colleges, the minister told the House.
The number of vacant seats was 538 and 62,829 in subsidized and self-funded engineering colleges, respectively, during these two academic years, he added.
“In the government polytechnic colleges, 28,423 seats were filled, while 11,480 remained empty during these two academic years. As many as 116 seats remained vacant in grant-in-aid and 41,053 in self-funded polytechnics,” he continued.
Patel said fees for government and private medical colleges have remained unchanged in the last two academic sessions.
Five Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS) medical colleges became functional in 2022 and admitted 500 students, he said. By 2021, a private medical college and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rajkot had admitted a total of 200 students, he said.
Read all the latest education news here
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed)
