From: managoli@cisa.cis.uab.edu (Sanjeev Managoli)
Subject: Nine Engg. colleges OKayed inspite of SC order in Karnataka
Originator: managoli@cisa
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:12:46 GMT

I picked up this piece of news from the India news.  Thought some of you
may not have read or access to news.  Any discussions on this topic ?

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Date: 29 Sep 92 01:07:53 GMT
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - Nine Engg. Colleges Okayed despite SC Orders in Karnataka
Source	: The Indian Express
Date	: Sept 21, 1992

Topics:
* Engg colleges okayed despite SC order in Karnataka
* In A.P management told to return capitation fee, orders quashed
* Pound devaluation unlikely to affect Indian trade

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* Engg colleges okayed despite SC order in Karnataka

Bangalore: Contrary to the Supreme Court order banning collection of
Capitation Fees, the Karnataka Government has granted permission to
start 9 Capitation fee-based colleges. The last date for admissions has
been extended to Sept 30 to help these colleges function from this year
itself.
	Surprisingly, only two of these colleges have been approved by
the expert committe which was set up by the government to go into the
question of granting permission for new engineering colleges. The other
colleges do not even find a mention in the recommendation of the
committee.
	In its order dated Sept 17, 1992, the government has granted
fresh affiliation to nine engineering colleges. They are:
Srinivasa Trust, Bangalore:
Rajiv Gandhi Engg Collge, Kolar:
Karnataka Inst of Technological Studies, Lakasandra:
NRI Inst of Technology, Bangalore:
S.P.R Rural college of Engg, Harohalli, Kanakapura:
H.M.S Inst of Tech, Tumkur,
T.J Inst of Technology, Nayandanahali, Bangalore:
Tontadarya Engg college, Gadag:
Maratha Mandal Engg Collge, Belgaum:
Srinivasea Engg Collge, Mahadevapura, Bangalore

	Of these, only of two - Sri Tontadarya and NRIIT have been
recommended by the expert committe headed by Prof.L.S.Srinath, former
director of IIT Madras.
	Most of the other managements have not even applied to the
respective universities for affiliation and now they suddenly find
themselves being granted a college out of the blue, without even having
applied for it. Besides the two colleges which are in the committee
list, other colleges have been granted permission violating all norms.
	In the normal course colleges are granted affiliation only
after the local inquiry committe (LIC) of the respective universities
visit the colleges and inspect if they have the necessary
infrasturctural facilites subject to approval of the LIC, the names are
sent to the government only after they have been accepted by the
academic bodes of the universities.
	But in the case of these colleges no inspection was done nor
had the university recommended their naems to the government.
	Ironically, atleast three of these colleges by a liquor barons.
	The expert had received forty proposal from private managements
to start engineering colleges. This was scrutinized on July 13 and only
11 were found to have confirmed to the norms prescribed by the All
India Council for Technical Education. As the other colleges could not
provide documents to support their claims, the committee decided not
recommend their names to the ggovernment. But when the government list
finally came out, these very colleges have been granted permission
while the ones recommended by the committe were left out.
	The expert panel has also recommended that a government
committe should visit the spot and satisfy itself about all
infrastructural facilites.

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