Tech colleges under AICTE scanner over land
Hyderabad: About 240 engineering colleges and other
technical colleges in the state have received show cause notices from
the AICTE for violating GO111 norms. The Quality Foundation had filed
two PILs in the High Court of Telangana, complaining about prevailing
deficiencies in land and building approvals of 200 plus colleges across
the state of Telangana.
As a result of the two cases, AICTE had issued show cause notices to
all the 240 engineering colleges to appear before the duly constituted
Scrutiny Committee to verify some of the original documents before
giving an approval for the academic year 2018-2019.
The colleges which received show cause notices appeared before the
AICTE Scrutiny Committee and submitted land and building original
documents for verification. Now, colleges are awaiting AICTE’s approval
to run engineering programmes and admit students for the academic year
2018-2019.
About 40 plus colleges were found to have violated GO Ms No-111,
Municipal Administration and Urban Development (II) Department, dated
March 8, 1996. These colleges were established without proper land
conversion certificates and approved building permissions according to
AICTE building permissions that were obtained from Grama Panchayats,
which is not competent. The authority concerned should have obtained
permission from either HMDA or DTCP.
Remaining 180 plus colleges have been established without proper land
conversion certificates and building approvals from competent
authorities.
Goutham Rao, president of Telangana Engineering College Management
Association told DC, “About 240 colleges received the show cause notice
for land deficiencies and colleges need minimum two years to resolve
these. Our Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao had also written to HRD
Minister Prakash Javedkar requesting to give minimum two years’ time to
resolve the deficiencies in lands and buildings. So we are hoping for
approvals from AICTE for this academic year’’.
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