bhubaneswar in a further jolt to professional education in the state at least four more institutes including a management college have decided to downsize operations from coming academic session this raises the number of such institutions to 20 as per a government communication to all india council of technical education aicte on january 21 the four institutes in and around bhubaneswar had sought the governments no objection certificate noc to reduce seat strength the government has given the goahead for downscaling it said the autonomous regional college of management rcm at chandrasekharpur has decided to close down mba tourism management and mba part time while there will be no admission in these two courses from 201314 academic session the institute will facilitate completion of studies for the existing students though over 15 engineering colleges had earlier decided to trim down number of seats or cut certain disciplines it is for the first time that a management college is closing down two streams the city has around 20odd management institutions around 3000 mba seats were lying vacant in 2012 the bhubaneswar engineering college bec at gangapada on the outskirts of the city would close down its mca discipline only three students had taken admission against the available 60 seats last year eastern academy of science and technology at phulnakhara would do away with btech in computer science as all its 60 seats remained vacant in 2012 altogether nine students are studying in different batches the institute has assured the government to hold regular classes for these students and complete the course modern institute of technology and management at kantabada had decided to reduce number of undergraduate seats in electrical and electronics engineering from 120 to 60 private engineering colleges said the downsizing was anticipated because of consistent vacancies for the past three to four years the government should amend the orissa professional education act 2007 to enable admission of more students from outside the state for the survival of the institutions said odisha private engineering college association secretary binod dash currently colleges can invite applications from outside students for only 8 of seats earlier 16 other colleges had decided to cut down number of seats drastically with international institute of engineering and technology iiet at gangapada downing shutters from the ensuing academic year sources estimate there would be around 3000 less seats from next academic year