Two of about a dozen engineering colleges are situated in Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur and are very old state government institutes yet they too face acute shortage of faculty. In most of the engineering colleges of the state Polytechnic College teachers are teaching. In the Budget session of the state Assembly Human Resources Development Minister, P K Shahi, conceded that there is acute shortage of qualified engineering teachers in Bihar.

NIT is a central government institute while IIT Patna does not figure in the list, obviously because it is yet to come out with the first batch. It started in the year 2008, but it is yet to shift to its own campus in Bihta, 42 km from Patna.

While NIT Patna is a seven year old engineering college Maulana Azad College of Engineering and Technology is a 23 years old minority institute. Both the institutes have better placement records. NIT is running from the old campus of the Bihar College of Engineering while MACET has its own sprawling campus at Neora, while its office is situated in Anisabad.

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It is unfortunate that Bihar does not have a single top 50 engineering college in India. The best in Bihar is NIT, Patna which ranks 79 among 100 tops Indian Engineering institutes. MACET has no place in top 100 engineering colleges in India. Jharkand has 3; Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (12), BIT Mesra, Ranchi (14), NIT Jamshedpure (40).

That is why our above-average students have been studying outside the states due to non-availability of best engineering colleges in Bihar. In fact Bihar lacks the technical institutes. Even average or below average students have been studying in other states. It may not be wrong to say that many private institutes outside Bihar are living on Bihari students.

Gheyas Hashmi
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