Bengaluru: Following a statement from the higher education minister on seats falling vacant in top engineering colleges, resulting in suspicions of seat blocking, Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology issued a press statement dismissing the allegations as baseless.
"Our institution is not involved in seat blocking, and the allegation made against it is totally false and baseless.In academic year 2024-25, 192 seats went vacant following the final round of KEA allotment after the last date for admission... Our institution has no role in the decision of students not accepting admissions or surrendering seats, and the institution cannot compel students to take admission and take up the course," said a press statement.
Minister MC Sudhakar had named six colleges in a press conference on Nov 8, saying a high number of computer science seats were going vacant in the last round of counselling, resulting in seats going into the management pool.