“We would like to bring it down to
between 10 lakh and 11 lakh (one million and 1.1 million) from a little over
16.7 lakh now. The capacity should come down for the betterment of
all—students, education providers and employer.” — Dr. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe,
Chairman, All India Council of Technical Education.
India’s technical education regulator,
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) denies approval to colleges
due to various reasons including poor infrastructure, shortage of faculty, poor
academic performance and the number of grievances. It takes serious note of engineering colleges
that inflate number of faculty on their rolls to meet the AICTE requirements
and guidelines by inviting cameo faculty at the time of inspections. It is
observed that most colleges bring in dummy faculty at the time of AICTE, JNTU
and OU inspections to show them. At times these colleges cheat the dummy
faculty also by not paying them the honorarium they have committed to pay for
the day of inspection. Of course, that is a different story. Second, the
colleges hire senior professors and PhD holders at the time of inspections to fool
the visiting inspection teams. If the college has another college, it takes
faculty on loan to show on records like the goods are taken on hand loan from
others. For instance, if the educational group has more number of colleges,
they reshuffle the faculty and senior professors to the college for which the
AICTE, JNTU and OU teams visit. The main intention is to fool them that these
colleges have adequate number of faculty, professors and PhD holders. The AICTE,
JNTU and OU have teams led by intellectuals who are aware of such notorious
games played by the owners of private engineering colleges in India. Some of
the owners of these colleges are over smart to pay money and get their colleges
ranked to brand themselves. Of course, people are smart enough and the
regulating bodies are intelligent enough to identify such fake ranks and games.
In this way, the owners of private engineering colleges not only try to fool
the AICTE and the universities they are affiliated but also cheat the students.
Students often take admission into these colleges based on their ranks and figures
shown on the brochures. After taking admission into the colleges, students realize
that they got cheated by these colleges as they don’t have adequate
infrastructure and efficient faculty, laboratories and libraries. Since there
is no way out, students suffer silently until they complete their education. If
students raise their grievances in their campus, they will not get their
qualifications since the management instructs the faculty to fail the students
in the internal and laboratory exams.
Both students and faculty should not
suffer silently. They must voice their grievances. They can approach AICTE directly
to redress their grievances which will be attended to earnestly. Here is the
link to email their grievances aictevigilance@gmail.com.
Because of these reasons, AICTE denied
approvals to many colleges. It is a step in the right direction because there
must be quality education to students, not quantity. There is no sense in
giving paper degrees and qualifications to students when they are not
employable and deployable in the corporate world. Research shows that currently
most students who pass out of engineering and other streams don’t have adequate
skills and abilities leading to unemployability. Additionally, the AICTE
chairman, Anil Sahasrabudhe[1]
had stated that only about 30% of engineering graduates were deemed employable
by recruiters.
Reasons
for Closure of Colleges
It is unfortunate that toddy traders,
financiers, real estate brokers and criminals have become education players to
make money in India. AICTE Chairman
commented[2]:
AICTE will ensure that students are not at the receiving end. We shall also
ensure that educational lands or properties are not converted into a real
estate business by education players.
While this year AICTE has reported to
have received about 1,422 applications seeking permission to shut down the
engineering departments or courses where about 556 engineering courses or
departments have closed down this year alone. The main reason[3]
behind the shutdown of the engineering departments or courses was said to be
the lack of proper infrastructure of this schools and inability of students of
these colleges to get a jobs in firms due to inadequacy of employable skills.
Surprise
Inspections in Telangana State
The TRS government in Telangana tried
to streamline the present system, and to check irregularities, frauds, and
corruption in private pharmacy, medical, engineering colleges. It conducted
surprise inspections to set the education system right. AICTE and affiliated
universities must conduct surprise inspections without prior intimation to
these colleges to check these irregularities. Only the owners who are strong
will survive and the rest will perish paving the way for encouraging good
educational institutions in India. It helps faculty enjoy professional ambience
and get their salaries on time. It helps students have adequate facilities to
acquire both education and knowledge. It is observed that some colleges cheat
faculty by not paying their salaries to the leaving faculty. Worse, these
colleges don’t pay salaries for months and blackmail the leaving faculty by various
means. Hence, AICTE and affiliated must check these irregularities to create a
healthy education system in India.
Conclusion
AICTE is the apex regulatory body for
technical education in India. It must ruthlessly close down the fraud colleges
that maintain fake list of faculty and indulging in irregularities. It must organize surprise inspections to such
colleges to derecognize them. It must identify the erring colleges that violate
the norms and close them.
To conclude, I strongly recommend the
steps taken by AICTE Chairman to deny approval to educational institutions that
don’t comply with their guidelines. There are plenty of engineering colleges in
the state of Telangana without quality education. Presently it has become a
problem of plenty. It is time to emphasize on quality in educational
institutions in India, not quantity for the betterment of all—students,
education providers and employers. Jai
Hind!
“All good is hard. All evil is easy.
Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” — Scott
Alexander
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