Tamil
Nadu and Puducherry will benefit by
the approval of new self financing
engineering colleges, which was recently
announced by All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE).
The AICTE has approved 85 new colleges
in Tamil Nadu and two in Puducherry.
The number of BE/B Tech seats will
now exceed 1.64 lakhs in TN. With
this, the total engineering institutions
in TN will tally to 420.
Andhra Pradesh has 523 engineering
colleges, Maharashtra 227 and Karnataka
154, according to the AICTE statistics.
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