Tag: Private Engineering Colleges

Bhubaneswar: In a significant decision to fill up the seats falling vacant in private engineering colleges, the state government has approved extending the admission quota for students from outside the state to 25% from the current academic year. The move comes after the Policy Planning Body, the apex advisory body of the Skill Development and […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Thursday confirmed participation in the JEE Main 2018 and urged students from the State to enroll themselves for the upcoming entrance examination starting from tomorrow. As per the CBSE notification, the online application process for JEE Main 2018 will start from December 1, 2017. Students have been asked to pay the […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) came out with a notification for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2018, the Odisha Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) on Friday urged the Odisha government to not participate in it till the proposed ‘One Country One Examination’ concept is implemented. OPECA members on Friday […]

Bhubaneswar: In what is being said as the last option to fill up large scale vacancies in engineering streams, as many as 6,921 students have enrolled for the second Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE). OJEE chairman Tushar Kumar Nath informed that 5,766 students have applied for the test for admissions into B-Tech, 905 students for […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as the counselling process for engineering has started in Odisha, nearly 900 B Tech seats in private engineering colleges have been slashed this year. Two private engineering colleges in Bhubaneswar and Rayagada have been debarred from participating in the admission process as they failed to get necessary approvals from AICTE. As a result, […]

Bhubaneswar: Private engineering colleges in Odisha are going bust in a big way. As many as 37 out of 90 engineering colleges functional in the State will face progressive closure in 2020-21. The colleges dot across the State ranging from Rayagada to Berhampur, Sambalpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jharsuguda and Bhubaneswar etc. As per highly placed sources […]