Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 12: To raise the issues of the unaided AICTE approved colleges, a delegation of various State associations, including Punjab Unaided Colleges Association (PUCA), recently met with AICTE Chairman, Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe in Delhi.
The delegation, led by Dr Anshu Kataria, president, PUCA; Dr Pardeep Kumar, president, Association of Self Financing Private Institutions of Haryana; Shridhar Singh, Secretary, Rajasthan Engineering Society, Jaipur; Lalit Kumar (Delhi) and others, submitted a memorandum regarding the problems being faced by unaided colleges.
Dr Anshu Kataria urged the AICTE Chairman that on the pattern of AICTE regulating and allotting the intake capacity of private colleges, private universities and deemed universities should also be brought under the ambit of AICTE.
Dr Pardeep Kumar said that in many States, the State Government has not constituted the regulatory body to control the functioning of these universities due to which many of these universities are admitting the students in bulk resulting into closure of small unaided colleges.
Shridhar Singh said that in many of the States, the State Governments were delaying the process of formation of regulatory body due to which the small unaided colleges were being closed down. On the other hands in Himachal Pradesh, Universities have to seek the approval from State regulatory body for starting any course or increasing seats of any course, he added.
Shridhar further said that a scam of fake degrees of Jodhpur National University has come to light wherein the University has awarded 38,000 degrees and marksheets to students out of which 25,003 were found fake. This shows that some universities are working like teaching shops as their admission process, administration process, eligibility process, examination process, fee structure etc is not controlled by any authority while in case of AICTE approved unaided colleges, it is all monitored by either AICTE itself or its State affiliated university.
Listening to all the problems being faced by unaided colleges, AICTE Chairman assured to forward the memorandum to Ministry of Human Resource & Development (MHRD).
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