AICTE forays into colleges to verify online claims

By SiliconIndia   |   Thursday, 12 April, 2012
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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has started carrying out surprise checks at colleges that had applied for an increase in the number of seats in engineering, pharmacy, MBA, MCA and other technical courses.
Surprise checks were carried out at two colleges in Surat on Monday. Officials said that raids will be carried out at 100 campuses in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
This is the first time the AICTE has decided to carry out surprise checks in colleges which apply for increase in seats on its web portal. Conventionally, the colleges apply for hike in intake of seats on the web portal of AICTE furnishing details of the infrastructure, staff and students online. The applications are scrutinized online and permission given for additional seats.
However, following complaints that many colleges do not have infrastructure and human resource that match the details provided in the online application, the AICTE decided to carry out surprise raids. In the past three years, many colleges are reported to have indulged in malpractices including lying about infrastructure and human resource.
AICTE officials said that colleges which are found flouting norms or providing incorrect information will be penalized.
A committee of two experts and one architect will visit the college campus and if the colleges are found to have provided wrong information, action will be taken. "This will include strict action of the AICTE cancelling existing seats as well", officials said.
This year, 8,000 additional seats have been sanctioned in engineering colleges. There are 450 engineering, pharmacy, MBA, MCA and other technical colleges in the state which can invite surprise checks.
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