ahmedabad students from gujarat seeking admission to technical courses may now have to compete with candidates from other indian states and foreign applicants experts feel a new legislative bill concerning this will force more students from gujarat to seek admission outside the state the gujarat assembly passed the gujarat professional technical educational colleges or institutions regulation of admission and fixation of fees bill 2019 which changes the earlier law that allowed only private colleges to admit students from other states the amendment to section 7a subsection 1 of the act which reads students from other states may be given admission in the unaided colleges or institutions will now have the words students from other states and other countries may be given admission in any college or institution according to the new bill there are sixteen government and four grantin aid colleges in the state where the new rule will be applicable from the next academic year of the 12837 seats in various technical courses 24 or 2987 seats went vacant in the 201920 academic year the new rules will make it tougher for gujarat students to get admission to the top technical institutes such as ld engineering college which get filled quickly said an official working at a government college filling seats for computer science it and chemical engineering is not a problem as there is a lot of demand for these courses areas such as rubber technology plastic engineering and metallurgy do not draw many candidates he added candidates from gujarat who are unable to get admission at technical courses in soughtafter government colleges usually opt for grantin aid institutions where fees are higher with the new bill more students from gujarat will be forced to seek admission outside the state said an official from a grantin aid institution in ahmedabadamong other changes the new bill reduces the number of government reserved seats for professional courses and opens direct admissions to foreign nationals and students from other states in the last three years it appears that the number of students are too few for the approved seats in professional courses in gujarat therefore more than 50 of seats at selffinanced institutions remain vacant after the acpc admission process is over state education minister bhupendrasinh chudasma told the house while presenting the bill also the number of seats was increased by 25 in 2019 to implement reservation for the economically weaker section ews category citing the examples of states such as maharashtra tamil nadu and karnataka where intake of students from other states is very high he said that for gujarat to follow a similar path a higher number of seats will be made available to sfis to fill on their own according to the amended bill the government reserved seats at unaided or selffinanced colleges have been reduced from 75 to 50 it also proposes to raise the number of management seats from 25 to 50 this includes 15 nonresident indian seats seats for the foreign nationals and students