UGC’s decision for freezing on new engg colleges may boost RTMNU’s decision of banning 250 colleges



By Vikas Vaidya

With an eye on bringing quality in technical education, University Grants Commission freezed new engineering colleges. This may boost the decision of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University of banning 250 colleges running sans teachers. UGC has asked universities not to process application from colleges providing technical education for the academic year 2014-15.
There was a much debate on the decision of banning 250 colleges. All colleges are not the technical institutions. But there is no tab on their spread. The issue has so haunted university, leading one Vice-Chancellor to quit. This situation is not alone in RTMNU but all universities throughout India are facing the same problem. Under section 82 (1) of Maharashtra Universities Act 1994, university prepares perspective plan as per the needs of the colleges in that area. But most of the universities under pressure of technical institutions allegedly violate the norms and such institutions stand up.
UGC has taken initiative in this regard. The Secretary of UGC in its letter to Vice-Chancellors of all universities has taken cognizance of data collected from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Dr S S Mantha, AICTE Chairman had been batting for an unique type of perspective plan. As per his idea, AICTE was supposed to collect the data of students who cleared Class XII examinations, how many of them opted for engineering colleges and remained there. This data would be collected at regional level that would be submitted to respective states and they in turn send it to Central Government and AICTE. Based on this data, a perspective plan would be prepared which could assess, exactly how many technical institutions India needs. Based on this data UGC has not stalled only affiliation of fresh colleges providing technical education but also opposed increase in the intake of students in technical colleges.
Two years ago, Maharashtra’s Minister for Technical Education Rajesh Tope had  requested All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) not to entertain any application of new engineering colleges. But Dr S S Mantha, Chairman of AICTE was of the opinion that respective State Governments should not forward such applications. But as the wings of AICTE were clipped by Government of India by removing their powers to have upper hand on universities, now UGC has all the control of universities. This decision of UGC may curb the mushroomin of engineering colleges in the country.
Recently, the issue of vacancies disturbed Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and on his behest, a committee under the Chairmanship of Dr G D Yadav, Vice-Chancellor of UICT, Mumbai was constituted to study the reasons behind the creation of vacancies in technical institutions.
In recent years everybody observed that thoughout the country, over 30 per cent seats in technical education remained vacant. AICTE took every care so that the large number of seats in technical education should not remain vacant.
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