bhopal once a muchsought after course among students master of computer application mca is now virtually gasping for breath this year 27 colleges out of 49 in the state have seen no admission there are 3110 seats available in the state of which around 82 seats are vacant there are around 66 colleges in the state which run mca courses realising the poor demand for the courses 17 colleges did not participate in the counselling as they decided not to take any admission this year the 49 colleges that opted for the counselling are also on the edge it was one of the most sought after courses till few years back however the mca course has hardly any taker now said a college official besides 30 colleges with nil admission there are 14 other such colleges which have witnessed admission of less than five students school of computer science and it davv indore is the only college which has managed to get more than 50 students out of the total intake of 60 students in the college 56 students took admission out of 60 seats on the contrary the mca department at barkatullah university institute of technology buit haas failed to admit a single student this year jabalpur engineering college has admitted 46 students only six college have managed to reach the double figure according to dte only six government colleges offering mca courses could manage to fill its seats to some extent they include engineering college jabalpur mits gwalior sati vidisha school of cs davv indore sgsits indore and uit rgpv bhopal after witnessing a low turnout in the open counseling colleges running the mca courses are not expecting much now going by the past experience we expect that the same number of seats will be filled in collegelevel counselling which were filled during open counselling clc started from wednesday said a government official about the lack of interest in mca courses officials said may be students are finding better opportunities in other disciplines it is becoming a trend over the last couple of years and now the situation has become so grim that students are not even taking admission in colleges