Engineering colleges face vetting

Sep 19
08:51

2012

Ramyasadasivam

Ramyasadasivam

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State-level task force officials have asked engineering college managements in the state to submit details of the facilities provided by them at their institutions.

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 The officials would then verify the list of facilities before putting up those details on the official websites of the colleges concerned as well as on the website of the AP State Council of Higher Education. Higher education officials made this announcement on Monday and said that while several college managements have been opposing the task force inspections,Engineering colleges face vetting Articles the state government would still go ahead with them.

About 150 engineering colleges out of the total 717 will be inspected in October. At a media conference on Monday, Ajay Jain, commissioner for technical education, said that the inspections will be held transparently without any interference from outside.

Chennai Engineering CollegesOfficials said that students who have sought full relief under the fee reimbursement scheme have now been told that the fee structure at colleges is subject to change based on the inspections of the task force.

Engineering GraduationA total of 57 officials will be involved in the inspection with the procedure also to include validation of data provided by the colleges to AFRC.

"No institute will be exempted from inspection, the outcome of which could even lead to withdrawal of affiliation of colleges (if the facilities on paper are found to be non-existent in reality)," Jain said. 

Source: Timesofindia.indiatimes.com