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  • Fee row: Pvt colleges to go ahead with strike

    HYDERABAD: The standoff between engineering colleges and the state government on the fee reimbursement issue is likely to continue for long. The private college managements have stated that they will go ahead with the proposed strike from February 16 if the government fails to release the entire fee arrears immediately.

    The colleges also have also refused to take bank loans on the government’s counter guarantee. They stated that they were not ready to pay interest to banks.

    Ramesh Nimmatoori, an official of a college, said that most colleges now want the government to pay up the money as soon as possible. “At a meeting held on Monday, majority of the representatives of the colleges stated that with the Supreme Court directing the government to submit an affidavit within one week, they will not agree to any proposal to wait for over three months,” said Nimmatoori.

    With the apex court order favouring them, the colleges have put forth another proposal. “The government will have to allot Rs 7,000 crore for the fee reimbursement scheme in the coming budget as against the proposed Rs 4,000 crore,” said Nimmatoori.

    Meanwhile, a section of engineering colleges said that they want the government to release 50 per cent of funds immediately. “The rest of the funds should be released by April first week. Otherwise, we will file a contempt petition against the government,” said K Krishna Reddy, president, Rural Engineering College Managements’ Association.

    In spite of the court order, the government on Monday stated that it would not be able to release funds in a week’s time and said that the colleges would have to wait till the end of February for the same. The government also expressed it helplessness to release 50 per cent of the funds immediately. The officials, however, stated that they would come up with a permanent solution to the problem by the end of February.

    Source : TOI

  • Ill-equipped colleges in for trouble

    HYDERABAD: At least 400 out of the 660 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh which do not fulfill the mandatory requirements related to qualified faculty and infrastructure are likely to face the music shortly as the State government is gearing up to crack the whip against them.

    These colleges face the prospect of being ranked poorly in the grading system likely to be introduced by the government from the next academic year based on their facilities and performance.

    The government following complaints on these colleges found various deficiencies in their functioning.

    It constituted a three-member committee in July last year to thoroughly examine the deficiencies in engineering colleges and suggest remedial measures to strengthen the professional education system.

    The committee, comprising Technical Education commissioner K Lakshminarayana, JNTU-Hyderabad vice-chancellor Prof DN Reddy and TEQUIP academic auditor Prof N Prakasa Rao, has completed its study and is expected to submit its report to the government soon.

    The grading of colleges is learnt to be one of the major recommendations to be made by the committee.

    The committee has observed that a large number of private professional institutions, particularly engineering colleges, have mushroomed in the State in the recent past without having the required infrastructure like classrooms, laboratories and qualified teaching staff.

    This has resulted in sub-standard education and low employability of the students who passed out of these institutions. Most of the faculty members in these institutions are recent B.Tech graduates.

    Though several colleges have good buildings, they lack laboratories and quality equipment for instruction.

    Apart from the grading system, the committee is likely to recommend a qualification test for faculty members and fixing a tuition fee structure based on the grading system to improve quality of education in engineering colleges.

    The committee is also likely to make some suggestions to improve employability of engineering graduates.

    The committee is learnt to have made some observations related to the low fee structure in the engineering colleges in the state compared to those in the neighbouring states.

    Sources, however, said the State government was in no mood to revise the fee structure fearing the huge financial burden it would entail on the exchequer towards scholarships and reimbursement of fee.

    Meanwhile, Governor ESL Narasimhan, in his capacity as the Chancellor of the universities in the State, reportedly wrote a letter to Chief Secretary SV Prasad recently seeking a report on the action taken by the State government on colleges that lack infrastructure and qualified faculty.

    Source : Indian Express

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