Engineering college managements will not hesitate to reject the admissions this year if the Government fails to include all the engineering colleges in the ongoing web counselling.
The Telangana Engineering and Professional Colleges Managements Association, which met here on Sunday to discuss the non-inclusion of about 175 colleges in the first phase of engineering counselling, wanted to know on what basis re-affiliation was denied by the JNTU Hyderabad. “They have not served any show cause notice or explained the deficiencies and unilaterally decided not to include the colleges. This is unfair,” said the association members, Gautam Rao, Suneel, Pullaiah and Pradeep Reddy.
Charge against governmentThe managements also said that the Government was escaping its responsibility of reimbursing the fee to the students. If it wants to discontinue the scheme it should do so rather than blame the colleges and put the lives of 25,000 families dependent on these colleges at stake, apart from thousands of students. “All the affected people are from Telangana and played an active role in the movement,” they reminded.
They said colleges were inspected twice for affiliation and it was done with the motive of closing them down. They said the JNTU Hyderabad Vice Chancellor Rameshwar Rao had violated all the norms in denying renewal of affiliation and sent the list secretly to the counselling officials. “We have not been told what the deficiencies are and when confronted he is not able to explain the reasons,” they said.
Challenge to VCThey challenged the VC to show whether the JNTU colleges in the districts had the required faculty and facilities. Why were they included in counselling and what answer the VC has for this? This is an effort to drive away poor and downtrodden students from engineering education, they alleged.
The managements wanted to know how the colleges would improve when the Government fails to pay students fee to the tune of hundreds of crores for several years. They said some officials were misleading the Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, and providing him with wrong information.
