Chief minister Pramod Sawant said that to keep engineering programme seats from going vacant in Goa, the state will incentivise pursuing technical Education in the state.
We have seen that over the last five years continuously the seats in engineering colleges in the state, even polytechnics, they remain vacant, almost 50%. After clearing Class X and XII, students only think of joining, BA, BSc, BCom, BBA programmes and do not think outside of these courses. Technical education may not be affordable at present to students from economically backward and rural sections. To boost these students, we will provide incentives, said Sawant, speaking at the World Youth Skill Day event in the state.