Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Department of Higher Education has completed seat allotments in NCTE-recognized courses, but several programmes like BPEd, MEd and integrated BEd-MEd continue to face a shortfall in student admissions. Colleges across the state are now urging the department to conduct an additional round of counselling to fill the remaining seats.
While the Bachelor of Education (BEd) course has seen satisfactory enrollment, other programmes have not fared well.
In BPEd, 30% of the seats remain vacant. MEd has 85% seats still vacant and the integrated BEd-MEd course is short by around 15%. This has led to mounting concern among college administrators.
According to the Devi Ahilya Education College Association, although seat allotment has been completed in three rounds of counselling, student interest remains low. The state currently offers about 65,000 seats across NCTE-approved programmes such as BEd-MEd, BPEd-MPEd and part-time BEd (three-year). Yet, nearly 25,000 seats remain vacant even after three phases of counselling.
During the fourth counselling phase, 27,000 students were eligible, but only 21,000 were allotted seats across various courses on Wednesday.
While BEd courses saw successful allotment, programmes like MEd, BPEd, and BEd-MEd continue to struggle with low enrollment.
Association president Abhay Pandey and member Sunil Pandya pointed to a key factor behind this declining interest: several colleges from districts such as Alirajpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Barwani and Badwah recently moved under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Khargone University, separating from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV). This transition had caused confusion and hesitancy among prospective students.
Association member Mohit Yadav added that Khargone University was yet to conduct first-semester exams for last year’s batch, while DAVV had already released the second-semester schedule. This administrative lag also contributed to student reluctance.
With the fee submission deadline of July 27 approaching, the association is pressing the DHE to urgently conduct an additional round of counselling to ensure maximum seat utilization.
