There are just 10 days left for the engineering counselling to end and more than 100 engineering colleges in the state have filled less than 10 seats so far.
 
More than 95,000 seats in self-financing colleges are yet to be filled, indicating that the supply has completely overshot the demand this year.
 
The counselling absentee rate, which had come down steadily after touching a peak on day one, has again started climbing and is now at 27.71% with an average of 23.53%. Self-financing colleges are trying to get around the issue by spending lakhs of rupees on advertisements and freebies.