Hyderabad: Justice A. Ramalingeswara Rao of the Hyderabad HC on Tuesday granted relief to private engineering colleges and directed the TS government and JNTU-H to include them in the list of colleges for admitting students in the Eamcet-counselling process for the academic year 2015-16.
The managements of several private engineering colleges had moved the court on June 28, 2015, against JNTU-H for not granting affiliation to them for the entire intake capacity and courses sanctioned by AICTE in its approval for the academic year 2015-16.
The judge directed JNTU-H to undertake an exercise to revise its regulations with help of legal experts, academicians and college managements in the light of this judgement.
While disposing the petitions, the judge declared that the regulations and norms framed by JNTU-H for granting affiliations to engineering colleges to the extent overlapped with the norms All India Council for Technical Education as invalid.
The judge directed JNTU-H to grant provisional affiliations to the colleges, which have been in existence for the past three years
The judge also directed the regional centre of the AICTE to undertake verification of the deficiencies pointed out by the JNTU and pending the decision, the institutions should be included in the web counselling scheduled from July 8.
