259 colleges denied affiliation due to non-compliance with AICTE norms and regulations

Hyderabad: Nearly 174 engineering colleges and 85 pharmacy colleges are expected to be left out of Eamcet Web counselling slated to begin on Sunday morning. Affiliation has been refused to these colleges for non-compliance with AICTE norms and regulations. As a result, students have been deprived of about 1 lakh seats.

Almost all existing engineering and pharmacy colleges in the Andhra University and SV University in Andhra Pradesh got their affiliation renewed. But, affiliations of only 141 engineering colleges and 61 pharmacy colleges in Telangana state were renewed till Saturday evening. The fate of other engineering colleges is not known yet.

Eamcet chief camp officer Dr K. Raghunath said only these many colleges will be available in the Web counselling set to begin from Sunday. “The list of available colleges will be uploaded on the website by Sunday morning,” he said.

Telangana government had categorically said that colleges violating AICTE norms will not be granted renewal. A fresh inspection drive was started again by the JNTU Hyderabad on the insistence of the Telangana government. Managements of engineering colleges are also fuming as they say they have not been given any clear reason as to why affiliations have been revoked.

College managements are gearing up for a legal battle as they said they would move a house motion in the Hyderabad High Court against the move by JNTU. Dr Gautam Rao, chairman, Telangana Engineering and Professional College Managements Association (TEPCMA), said, “They are not telling us the reason of refusing renewal.”

As of now, only about 85,455 seats will be available in Web counselling from Sunday. A total of 1,84,575 seats were supposed to be available before the inspection.