Hyderabad: Issuing no-objection certificates to allegedly non-functioning private engineering colleges located on the city outskirts and allowing them to relocate to the city areas by amending technical clauses has upset the Telangana Engineering and Professional Colleges Management Association.
Six colleges have applied for shifting of their talent wing. It is feared that this move will create a domino effect and force many other colleges to shift based on students’ demand.
Dr N. Goutham Rao, chairman of TEPCMA, explained, “The AICTE and commissioner of technical education have amended a clause whereby engineering colleges can use temporary private buildings to house their facilities and classes. This condition was not there earlier.”
He said colleges have been established on private land or land leased by the government. “Why should a private college be allowed to operate a college in a temporary building,” he asked. Infrastructure for engineering colleges would require 50,000 to 70,000 square feet.
Association members said the rule change would affect institutions which have been performing diligently.
Mr Goutham said, “We condemn this decision of the AICTE and want government to reconsider. This will lead to the mushrooming of colleges that are not giving enough attention to academic goals and merely indulging in short-term gains.”
