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As interest of the students for the course varies and the employment, placement opportunities are limited for some courses, some of the premier technology institutes of country are tweaking the number of students in some of those courses. They are introducing new or interdisciplinary programmes in keeping with a government directive to plan their courses based on popularity and employability.
Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi and Kanpur (IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur), have plan to reduce the number of seats in unpopular courses and divert them to popular ones. The latter may even stop its nuclear engineering technology programme due to lack of interest from students.
The Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) recently told all centrally funded technical institutions, including IITs, to close centres and end courses that have seen a decline in the number of applicants in the past three years. The ministry also told them to introduce new courses and disciplines only after analysing market opportunity (popularity), employability and requirement of higher education.
