Engineering College managements have threatened to close down colleges accusing the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad officials of manipulating the inspection reports and “misleading” the Government leading to disaffiliation of more than 100 colleges.
The representatives of college managements who met on Thursday to chalk out their strategy in view of the JNTU-H deciding to take action against them, also threatened to file criminal and civil cases at various courts against the officials apart from contempt of court cases.
College representatives - N. Ramesh, Gautam Rao, KVK Rao, Pradeep Reddy, Krishna Rao and others told reporters that the JNTU-H had constituted a standing committee to review the reports of experts from BITS Pilani Hyderabad and IIT Hyderabad, instead of submitting the same to the Supreme Court.
The college managements would also protest at the JNTU-H seeking information of officials who had “tampered” with the inspection committee reports. They alleged that there was personal prejudice against some colleges.
Mr. Ramesh said that they would file cases in the courts if the officials failed to give satisfactory answers within a week. We are accepting “minor deficiencies” but they could have been plugged if sufficient time was given. On duplication of teachers, Mr. Ramesh claimed teachers had no option but to teach in different colleges as managements had failed to pay salaries due to the non-release of fee reimbursement dues.
The managements charged Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao of believing NASSCOM figures rather than understanding the “ground reality”. The JNTUH officials also took the cue blaming the colleges for the ills. They sought to remind colleges that they had voluntarily agreed to reduce the intake, but the JNTU-H did not react.
They also claimed that “similar” conditions existed in all the technical institutions in the country but for the first time in the history, police cases were filed against colleges in Telangana. They demanded that the cases be withdrawn immediately and also wondered why colleges under Kakatiya University and Osmania University were left “untouched”.
