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Tamil Nadu
By K. Ramachandran
The AICTE Southern Regional Council chairman, P. Dayarathinam, will chair the committee. Similar fact-finding panels have also been formed for the six other regions under the AICTE, say official sources. According to a communique sent to the members, who will form part of the committee, it would also examine whether the engineering and management colleges were following the AICTE interim regulations (on admissions) in letter and in spirit. Going by indications, the panel would meet in the next few days and send a report to the council within a week. The high-level group could also act as a standing committee to regularly look into complaints of collection of capitation fee and excess fee, and admissions in excess of the sanctioned strength. In June last week, the AICTE chairman, R. Natarajan, wrote to all State Governments noting that the council had formulated a set of interim guidelines to be followed in admissions. In essence, the guidelines, prepared after deliberations with the State Secretaries in-charge, said 85 per cent of the seats in self-financing colleges would have to be filled under the SWS and the rest as management quota. In minority institutions, the ratio was 50:50. But unaided managements in Tamil Nadu and several other States challenged the interim guidelines and the matter is under litigation. The AICTE is reportedly consolidating all cases and they may be referred to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the electronic and print media have in the past few weeks come out with a string of reports about students complaints such as collection of capitation fee or fees in excess of what has been prescribed by the respective States. There have also been reports of harassment of students and lack of infrastructure and fully qualified teachers. Even faculty members are reportedly facing problems in many colleges. For example, a young librarian in an institution in a Chennai suburb has lodged a written complaint with the Anna University and the police, saying the management, even after his resignation, was refusing to return his original certificates, nor had it paid him salary for a few months. He was treated inhumanly when he approached the management. He has also made a plea before the State Human Rights Commission. The members of the high-level committee for the southern region, besides Prof. Dayarathinam, are the Directors of Technical Education for Tamil Nadu (S.K. Prabhakar) and Pondicherry (G. Panneerselvam), the Commissioner for Technical Education Pondicherry (AR. Sukumar), the Vice-Chancellors of the Anna University (E. Balagurusamy) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (T. Venkatarami Reddy), and the academician, G.J.V.J. Raju. The Director, AICTE southern region, M. Ravichandran, would be the convener. According to the regional office here, members of the public can send in specific complaints to the committee either directly (aictesouth@vsnl.com) or through the respective Directorates of Technical Education and/or the Anna University.
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