Finally, the cat is out of the bag. The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, which had denied affiliation to 174 private engineering colleges on the grounds that they had failed to fulfill the prescribed norms, now stands exposed for its blatant favouritism.
The university authorities on Thursday evening uploaded on their website the inspection reports of the fact finding committee on various deficiencies detected in the engineering colleges in fulfilling the norms prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The inspection was conducted by the fact finding committee comprised of experts from BITS, Osmania University and other technical institution. The deficiencies include lack of adequate built-up area in the premises, violation of master plan specifications for construction of buildings, shortage of qualified staff, non-compliance of faculty-student ratio and payment of salaries to faculty as per AICTE pay scales.
"Inspection reports on private engineering colleges uploaded on varsity website; several colleges which got affiliation found to have violated AICTE norms"
Surprisingly, such deficiencies are found even in 125 private engineering colleges that were given affiliation by the University during 2014-15. It clearly showed that the university had blatantly favoured these select engineering colleges and deliberately disaffiliated 174 others, which too had similar deficiencies. Ironically, 46 of these 125 engineering colleges could not secure any admissions in the preceding year. And some of them have even written to the AICTE recently, offering to surrender several courses and seats which could not be filled up during the 2014-15 counselling.
It may be mentioned that METRO INDIA has carried a series of reports exposing this blatant favouritism of the JNTU-H in discriminating against several engineering colleges and favouring a select number of colleges, ostensibly under political and monetary pressures. Meanwhile, managements of disaffiliated engineering colleges have alleged that they were deliberately targeted by the University. Interestingly, the university has uploaded the details of inspection report when the next inspection is scheduled to commence in the first week of May. The report clearly shows that several colleges that were allowed to function were not up to the mark as per the norms.
Telangana Engineering and Professional Colleges Management Association chairman N Goutham Rao said that the JNTU-H wanted to close down all the colleges that were disaffiliated by it in the past. “Several other colleges with same deficiencies have been allowed to function while 174 colleges were disaffiliated on the same grounds. We were able to get the permission from Supreme Court but could not take up admissions last year.” If a yardstick of proper infrastructure, appropriate student-teacher ratio and others is used it should be used for equally for all, he said. He said that several of the 125 colleges that were allowed to function previous year by JNTUH were even worse than the colleges listed under disaffiliated.
An office bearer of an engineering college said the entire drama of disaffiliating the colleges on the pretext of having poor standards was created only to reduce the number of engineering colleges to reduce the burden of fee reimbursement scheme. He said many of the so-called top colleges or high standard 125 colleges take Rs 70,000 to Rs 1 lakh per seat per annum, while the disaffiliated colleges charged only Rs 35,000.
In wake of the report that is uploaded on website of JNTUH, he asked how the colleges taking lesser fee could maintain the standards when the colleges that charged hefty fee failed to do so.
The inspection reports were uploaded on the JNTU-H website at a time when the AICTE has accorded conditional permission to the engineering colleges to function recently. AICTE has asked the colleges to fulfill the necessary criteria and apply for inspection once again. Earlier the JNTUH officials have not published the inspection report of the permitted 125 colleges. When the dis affiliated college managements protested and sought the intervention of High Court, JNTUH officials agreed to make the report public. However, the 174 colleges have lost their one year and revenue. The managements of the disaffiliated colleges ask that if standards were the bench mark then how colleges with poor standards were allowed to function.
The university authorities on Thursday evening uploaded on their website the inspection reports of the fact finding committee on various deficiencies detected in the engineering colleges in fulfilling the norms prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The inspection was conducted by the fact finding committee comprised of experts from BITS, Osmania University and other technical institution. The deficiencies include lack of adequate built-up area in the premises, violation of master plan specifications for construction of buildings, shortage of qualified staff, non-compliance of faculty-student ratio and payment of salaries to faculty as per AICTE pay scales.
"Inspection reports on private engineering colleges uploaded on varsity website; several colleges which got affiliation found to have violated AICTE norms"
Surprisingly, such deficiencies are found even in 125 private engineering colleges that were given affiliation by the University during 2014-15. It clearly showed that the university had blatantly favoured these select engineering colleges and deliberately disaffiliated 174 others, which too had similar deficiencies. Ironically, 46 of these 125 engineering colleges could not secure any admissions in the preceding year. And some of them have even written to the AICTE recently, offering to surrender several courses and seats which could not be filled up during the 2014-15 counselling.It may be mentioned that METRO INDIA has carried a series of reports exposing this blatant favouritism of the JNTU-H in discriminating against several engineering colleges and favouring a select number of colleges, ostensibly under political and monetary pressures. Meanwhile, managements of disaffiliated engineering colleges have alleged that they were deliberately targeted by the University. Interestingly, the university has uploaded the details of inspection report when the next inspection is scheduled to commence in the first week of May. The report clearly shows that several colleges that were allowed to function were not up to the mark as per the norms.
Telangana Engineering and Professional Colleges Management Association chairman N Goutham Rao said that the JNTU-H wanted to close down all the colleges that were disaffiliated by it in the past. “Several other colleges with same deficiencies have been allowed to function while 174 colleges were disaffiliated on the same grounds. We were able to get the permission from Supreme Court but could not take up admissions last year.” If a yardstick of proper infrastructure, appropriate student-teacher ratio and others is used it should be used for equally for all, he said. He said that several of the 125 colleges that were allowed to function previous year by JNTUH were even worse than the colleges listed under disaffiliated.
An office bearer of an engineering college said the entire drama of disaffiliating the colleges on the pretext of having poor standards was created only to reduce the number of engineering colleges to reduce the burden of fee reimbursement scheme. He said many of the so-called top colleges or high standard 125 colleges take Rs 70,000 to Rs 1 lakh per seat per annum, while the disaffiliated colleges charged only Rs 35,000.
In wake of the report that is uploaded on website of JNTUH, he asked how the colleges taking lesser fee could maintain the standards when the colleges that charged hefty fee failed to do so.
The inspection reports were uploaded on the JNTU-H website at a time when the AICTE has accorded conditional permission to the engineering colleges to function recently. AICTE has asked the colleges to fulfill the necessary criteria and apply for inspection once again. Earlier the JNTUH officials have not published the inspection report of the permitted 125 colleges. When the dis affiliated college managements protested and sought the intervention of High Court, JNTUH officials agreed to make the report public. However, the 174 colleges have lost their one year and revenue. The managements of the disaffiliated colleges ask that if standards were the bench mark then how colleges with poor standards were allowed to function.
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