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| 22nd
July 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Clueless on number of seats, state stalls tech admissions
Mumbai: Maharashtra has stalled admissions to its professional
courses— engineering and MBA—as it does not
have accurate information on the number of seats in its
colleges. In several cases, information that local colleges
fed into the database and records from the All India Council
for Technical Education—the apex regulatory body—is
conflicting.
Take for instance Aditya College of MBA, Beed, which listed
pharmacy and civil engineering as some of its courses,
even though they only offer management. “We have
postponed admissions because we are clueless about the
total number of seats in the state. We need clarity on
the new colleges that the AICTE has approved, as well
as existing colleges that had approached the council to
increase their seat intake or start new streams. We hope
to start admissions by next week,’’ said S
K Mahajan, director of the Directorate of Technical Education
(DTE).
The state was to commence engineering admissions last
week,while the process for MBA had started. However, both
have been postponed. The problem, said a source, stemmed
from the day private colleges were asked to feed in their
own information into a central system. “After the
leadership changed in the AICTE, the council eased several
norms. It did not visit any college that wanted to expand
its capacity, but merely asked them for details on the
infrastructure and faculty. Later, the colleges were expected
to update the total seats. But several institutes did
not provide the correct information.’’
This year, though the AICTE gave the nod to 116 professional
colleges across Maharashtra to start operations, merely
50 institutes have, to date, received their letters of
approval from the council. “Some may not even get
the permission as the executive council of the AICTE that
met recently did not give a green signal for many new
colleges,’’ said the source. “There
is also no clarity on the engineering colleges that had
applied for a second shift and wanted to run a polytechnic
on the same premises,’’ the source added.
Till last year, the AICTE and DTE used to compile the
database.
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