Hyderabad High Court: Sub standard tech colleges can’t function

The Bench was dealing with appeals by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and the state government, challenging an order of a single judge directing the JNTU to include various private engineering colleges in web counselling for EAMCET 2015 admissions. Affiliations of these colleges had been rejected by the varsity on grounds of deficiencies in infrastructure and teaching faculty.

The Bench said: “For the B.Tech course, the colleges will be allowed to run if there is a shortage of one or two members as against the required faculty strength. But for the PG course (M.Tech), the minimum requirement is a must and there is no relaxation..” TS advocate general K. Ramakrishna Reddy, appearing for JNTU, told the court that as many as 66 colleges did not have faculty with the required PhD qualification and the petitioner colleges had failed to fulfil the assurances given to JNTU while seeking affiliation. When the counsels appearing for the colleges urged for more time to rectify the lapses, the Bench pointed out: “When you couldn’t get the faculty in the last several years, how will you get them in few months?”

Justice A.V. Sesha Sai of the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday quashed criminal proceedings pending against actor-politician Chiranjeevi. The actor had informed the court that the Nandyal police of Kurnool district had booked a case against him in 2008 while he was participating in a road show as the president of Praja Rajyam, for allegedly obstructing the public and traffic flow.

While urging the court to quash the proceedings against him, he recalled that in similar cases, the High Court had found fault with registration of crimes based on only police proceedings without any independent complainants to report the same. Agreeing with the contentions of the petitioner, the judge allowed Chiranjeevi’s plea.