VACENT SEAT

Karnataka’s engineering colleges are likely to see several thousand seats go vacant again this year.Last year, more than 3,000 engineering seats out of the state’s total 55,000 stayed empty.Industry experts say only about a quarter of India’s 400,000 engineers who graduate every year are employable.Popular branches like computer science and electronics and telecommunication will get filled up even in bad colleges, whereas it is often difficult to fill up less popular branches like chemical engineering even in good colleges.