AICTE do’s and don’ts for BE colleges

The guidelines also say that each student and faculty need to be covered under accident and life cover at the cost of the institute. The AICTE’s guidelines come a year after more than 25 students from an engineering college in Hyderabad, who were on an excursion, were caught in the flash floods in river Beas in Himachal Pradesh.

In a July 31 circular sent to all technical educational institutions, including deemed universities in the country, AICTE vice-chairman Avinash S. Pant said that it should be the prime concern of educational administrators across the country to ensure that students were safeguarded against attacks, threats, and accidents, both man-made and natural.

Pointing out that the faculty who accompany students on tours should be aware about the students’ health condition, the guidelines says the teacher should decide whether to allow any student to be part of any activity based on his/her health condition.

Heads of institutions have also been ordered to get written permission from the parents of students allowing their son/daughter to take part in the tour and obtain students’ signatures that they would abide by rules and regulations.

The guidelines make accompanying faculty liable for disciplinary action if they were found compromising on student safety in any manner during the tour.

Asked about the circular, Anna University Vice-Chancellor M.Rajaram said all students in their university departments and its constituent colleges had already been covered under life and accident insurance.

“Even before AICTE had come up with the set of guidelines we have been following it to ensure safety of students and faculty,” he said.