mumbai the state had allotted seats to engineering graduates aspiring to pursue their masters course five days ago soon the list was declared invalid citing a technical error what really happened was confusion over several outlandish nomenclatures of various programmes across colleges and state universities that make an undergraduate engineer eligible for a masters the college of engineering pune coep conducts admissions to the masters programmes in engineering mtech me the job has been outsourced by the directorate of technical education to the pune college since last year the problem arose as universities across the state have affiliated institutes run programmes with varied names the problem in allotment was due to a minor error in writing the software programming logic said a coep official who is heading the admission process nearly 15000 candidates had applied for 17000 seats listed as separate courses are computer science and engineering computer engineering information technology computer science and information technology computer technology computer science and technology and computer science coep technicians failed to mention or between various course nomenclatures while writing the software code for allotment due to which some students eligible for a masters in computers were declared unfit coep pulled out the allotment list when students complained and said on its website due to technical snag some seat allocations have been made which are incompatible to the eligibility requirements of respective universityinstitute this step is undertaken to rectify the inappropriate seat allotment in cases of some students a statelevel expert committee report said it is abundantly clear there are too many substandard institutes with countless programmes and considerable examples of deceptive nomenclatures india has 234 degree and 399 diploma engineering courses it is unfortunate that agencies approved different nomenclatures for basic engineering courses and incre ased undergraduate engineering programmes which is suggestive of the downfall of engineering education the report said experts said this arrangement benefitted private colleges the most different nomenclatures benefit profitminded institutes that want to offer only popular disciplines said a member of the committee that analyzed vacancies in professional courses and suggested remedial measures to the state government