New Delhi: A report of the last five years admission to B.Tech in Textile Engineering Course at IIT Delhi has shown a steep rise in the number of vacancy seats.
According to the official report, the number of students admitted to B.Tech in Textile Engineering through JEE Advanced at IIT Delhi has been reduced from 104 against 105 seats in 2017-18 to 95 against 116 seats in 2021-22.
The proportion of vacant seats in the first year of the BTech textile engineering programme has gone up from 0.9 per cent in 2017-18 to 18 per cent in 2021.
This drop in admission is more visible in percentage as the numbers of allotted seats has increased whereas the number of admitted students have been decreasing.
According to Professor SM Ishtiaque, former head of the textile engineering department at IIT Delhi, this branch is increasingly becoming less popular among students.
“Normally, textile and biomedical are becoming the lowest preference of the students opting for IIT Delhi. We have a provision that in the first year, if any students are performing better, they can change their discipline, so definitely students change to more sought-after branches like electrical, mechanical etc…subject to availability of seats at the end of the year, leaving a vacancy in textile technology seats” he said.
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