Bangalore: Is the 'IIT' loosing its charisma? The tag which has always been a prestigious honor for students, is today craving for students. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has around 750 seats vacant in this year’s academic session. The authorities will have to gaze through the courses that are laser aspired in order to avoid the high rate of vacant seats in the institutes. Around 13,000 students were selected through the Joint Entrance Examination, but it’s sad to know that most of the students did not even apply for the admission, and many opted to drop out after taking admission.

Some say it’s the courses at IIT that play the biggest factor behind the dropout rates. Talking to Hindustan Times, Sanjay Dande, Director of IIT Kanpur said, “The course on pulp and paper technology, for example, in the Indian school of Mines (Dhanbad) has no takers Many reputed technological institutes are offering popular courses and are easily available, and this is cited as another major reason for the rising dropout rates.. The country is suddenly flooding with several reputed technology institutes in last few years.

IITs have no such option of refunding the initial fees of 40, 000, that’s the biggest reason that students don’t even bother to inform the institutes. So the seats in the records are shown filled. Dande sees the issue of filled seats as a problem of individual institutes rather than the Joint Admission Board authorized to conduct IIT-JEE and give admission.