A host of engineering colleges were set to open from new academic year thus giving further competition to the existing ones that were already in the red owing to drop in student numbers.In 2009, 83,000 seats in 397 colleges were available through MHT-CET which increased to over one lakh in 519 colleges last year. This year, the numbers of colleges, particularly of the engineering faculty, will swell further.Apart from this, some autonomous institutes like VJTI and UICT in Mumbai conduct their own entrance exams.Every year, MHT-CET attracts over two lakh students.But new colleges will find it difficult to get students. Many new colleges in Nagpur University had planned to close down some branches when they failed to get even a single student last year.This year over 3.91 lakh students had appeared for state board's HSC exam from science stream of which 43,545 were from Nagpur division. The results will be declared by June 14.


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