At present, India is the home for around 3,393 colleges which have 14.85 lakhs seats available. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh have about 70 percent tech institutes. When admissions closed this year, AICTE anticipated that nearly two lakh seats remained unfilled. This excess in the engineering seats has laid the experts worried. This year AICTE had relaxed entry norms for tech schools, hoping that there would be a rush of students. But despite lowering the minimum score required to join an engineering college, there weren't enough students to fill all the seats on offer. So, as per the letter sent by many state governments, the AICTE has asked them to pass on copies of perspective plans of all the universities of the respective states, so as to control and map the growth of colleges.