NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will not allow new conventional disciplines with low employment potential from the academic year 2020-21 and will permit only emerging fields like Artificial Intelligence and Block chain, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.

COIMBATORE: The total number of engineering seats in technical institutions across the country, which was around 16.5lakh in 2015-2016, came down to 14lakh seats this year, said Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).On an average 80,000 seats have been closed each year for the past three years, he said. This was because around 80 engineering colleges have been closed across the country and around 200 engineering colleges had very less admissions.

For academic session 2019-20, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has approved as many as 57,747 pharmacy seats in 842 new colleges across India. With the new additions, there will now be a total of 2, 62,698 diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate seats in 3,726 pharmacy institutes this year. The surge in number of seats underlines the ever expanding Indian pharmaceutical market. This is one of the few sectors which are growing in double digit Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), say experts.