Vigilance Red-Flags Faulty Affiliation Process At JNTU-H
University ignored complaints, recognised Kodad college based on forged documents
Hyderabad: Telangana’s vigilance and enforcement (V&E) department has flagged serious lapses in the grant of JNTU Hyderabad’s affiliation and recognition to a women’s engineering college in Kodad, Suryapet district, despite the alleged use of fabricated land documents and forged government certificates.
Kodad-based KITS Women’s Engineering College was granted recognition and affiliation by JNTU Hyderabad based on fabricated land documents. The V&E report, dated October 8, 2024, pointed out the misuse of multiple land documents and misrepresentation by the sponsoring society.
According to the V&E enquiry, land shown in three different documents — Doc. No. 9289/2007, 9309/2007, and 9706/2012 — was reused across applications to secure both initial recognition in 2008 and extension of affiliation in 2023-24. The registrar of JNTU confirmed that the same 10.29 acres were used again with updated survey numbers, including in Fact-Finding Committee inspections in 2008 and 2023.
The college has reportedly also submitted a forged land conversion certificate (LCC), which was supposedly issued in 2011 to convert residential land for educational purposes. The revenue divisional officer (RDO), Suryapet, confirmed this LCC was fabricated. A related gift deed was also found to have been executed by a non-member of the Kakatiya Educational Society.
Registrar officials of JNTU Hyderabad acknowledged receiving repeated complaints from citizens and student groups. These include representations from the Telangana Students Joint Action Committee, KPBV Kumar (Kodad resident), and G. Ramana Reddy (principal, KV Reddy Memorial College), all alleging falsified documents were used in affiliation processes.
The matter is also under judicial scrutiny. A writ petition in the Telangana High Court resulted in directions issued to authorities in April 2024 to take action within four weeks. Separately, civil litigation is ongoing in a Suryapet court over mortgaged college land and assets worth `28 crore.
The chairman of the sponsoring society, Neela Satyanarayana, faces multiple FIRs for cheating and document fabrication. An RTI reply also confirmed that several public complaints had been received, but no prior departmental action had been taken before the recent enquiry.
The V&E alert notes that guidelines from both AICTE and JNTU require verified land ownership and regulatory clearance, which appear to have been bypassed in this case.
