Calcutta University will hold counselling for the second time in a month as more first-year BTech seats have fallen vacant with students leaving for Jadavpur University following a new round of admissions there.
About a fourth of CU’s first-year engineering seats are vacant.
CU held its own counselling on December 8 to fill 48 seats that had remained vacant after the centralised counselling by the JEE board.
The university will now hold the second phase of independent counselling on December 29 as 66 of the 237 BTech seats are now vacant.
JU held its independent counselling from December 14 to 17 and on December 22 because a third of its 1,253 BTech seats had remained vacant after the JEE board counselling.
A CU official said in the first four days of JU’s counselling, 66 seats fell vacant.
Since the vacancy figure will go up after JU’s final day of counselling on December 22, a notice by CU on Thursday said: “Vacancy may increase at the table of counselling”.
“An astounding vacancy (437 seats) at JU triggered the exodus from our university. Since top-ranking students in state JEE take enrolments at CU after JU, the vacancy at our city rival led to the shift,” the CU official said.
“The seats will get filled up eventually. But we are worried about the quality of students,” said a teacher.
The application format for round 2 of counselling has been uploaded on CU’s website. Applications will be received on December 23, 24 and 27.