As against a total intake of 18,22,932 seats in undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses in the country, only 9,15,196 seats were filled during the academic year 2015-16. The information was provided by Minister of State for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.<br/><br/>Mr Pandey also said that at the end of Joint Seat allotment in 2016, 73 seats in IITs, 23 seats in IIT-ISM Dhanbad, 1518 seats in NITs, 407 seats in IIITs and 1174 seats in other centrally-funded technical institutions were vacant.<br/><br/>In another written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Mr Pandey informed that 341 institutions have offered courses without the approval of the All India Council for Technical Education. In a reply to another question, Pandey said that JNU has reported that there are 308 vacant faculty positions at various levels.