The Telangana government on Thursday sanctioned another 14,565 seats in the engineering colleges of the State.
According to officials, the government has given permission for an increase of the number of engineering seats in computer science and related courses by reducing seats in other engineering disciplines.
With the increase in seats, the government will be burdened by an additional expense of Rs 27.39 crore annually (in fee reimbursements), and the number of engineering college seats in Telangana will reach 1,00,671.