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Wednesday, Mar 31, 2010
Can Admit Only 420 Students; AICTE Nod Awaited For 50 New Tech Institutions
Chennai: Even as 50 applications to establish self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu are pending with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the regulatory body has decided to restrict institutions that are not accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) from admitting more than 420 students in a batch.
“Existing engineering colleges whose courses are not accredited by the NBA cannot increase their students’ intake beyond 420 seats. If the courses offered by the institutions are accredited by the NBA, then they will be permitted to admit a maximum of 540 students per batch. Colleges which have already exceeded this number will not be disturbed but no additional seats will be sanctioned,” AICTE southern region chairman P Mannar Jawahar said on Tuesday.
The AICTE southern region officials will scrutinise the applications received for establishing new colleges between April 5 and 10. “In Tamil Nadu, we have received applications to establish 25 management (MBA) institutions, 50 engineering colleges, 13 integrated c a m p u s e s, one architecture college and a catering institution. After the applications are scrutinised, we intend to complete the ins p e c t i o n process before May 15,” Jawahar, who is also the vice-chancellor of Anna University (Chennai), said.
Explaining the concept of “integrated campuses”, he said educational trusts which owned and administered engineering as well as B-schools would be allowed to merge the campuses under the scheme. “They would have started separate MBA and BE colleges. But if they get permission to launch integrated campuses, the management can share common facilities such as playground, library, computer laboratory and so on,” Jawahar said.
If all the 50 engineering colleges get permission to start functioning from the coming academic year, the number of seats in undergraduate engineering programmes would go up by 12,000 as each institution might get a intake of 240 seats. Tamil Nadu already has more than 1.65 lakh BE/BTech seats of which over 51,000 seats had no takers last year.
Curbs on non-accredited engg colleges
Can Admit Only 420 Students; AICTE Nod Awaited For 50 New Tech Institutions
Chennai: Even as 50 applications to establish self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu are pending with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the regulatory body has decided to restrict institutions that are not accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) from admitting more than 420 students in a batch.
“Existing engineering colleges whose courses are not accredited by the NBA cannot increase their students’ intake beyond 420 seats. If the courses offered by the institutions are accredited by the NBA, then they will be permitted to admit a maximum of 540 students per batch. Colleges which have already exceeded this number will not be disturbed but no additional seats will be sanctioned,” AICTE southern region chairman P Mannar Jawahar said on Tuesday.
Explaining the concept of “integrated campuses”, he said educational trusts which owned and administered engineering as well as B-schools would be allowed to merge the campuses under the scheme. “They would have started separate MBA and BE colleges. But if they get permission to launch integrated campuses, the management can share common facilities such as playground, library, computer laboratory and so on,” Jawahar said.
If all the 50 engineering colleges get permission to start functioning from the coming academic year, the number of seats in undergraduate engineering programmes would go up by 12,000 as each institution might get a intake of 240 seats. Tamil Nadu already has more than 1.65 lakh BE/BTech seats of which over 51,000 seats had no takers last year.
Courtesy: Times of India
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