From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - Nine Engg. Colleges Okayed despite SC Orders in Karnataka
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 01:07:53 GMT


Source	: The Indian Express
Date	: Sept 21, 1992
Country	: India

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.

* In Andhra Pradesh, management told to return capitation fee, orders quashed 

Hyderabad: Sept 20: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday struck down
the state Government;s order sanctioning 12 medical and eight dental
colleges in the state.
	the full bench of the High Court also stuck down Section 3 A of
the A.P Educational Institutions Amendment Act, 1992, which facilitated
50 per cent of the seats in private professional colleges to filled by
the management on the basis of collection of capitation fee.
	The bench, comprising justices V.Sivaraman Nair, M.N.Rao and
D.Reddapa Reddy, condemned the collection of capitation fee as being
against national interests and upheld the selection of candidates for
all seats on the basis of examination. There was no better method of
admission evolved so far, the judges felt.
	the bench directed the managements of the 20 professional
colleges to refund the capitation fees collected already from students
within four weeks. otherwise, the students are entitled to initiate
civil action for recovery, the judges said.
	The full bench did not spare even the expert committee which
guided the government in the matter of sanction of these medical and
dental colleges when it remarked that the entire exercise carried out
by panel "ended in a disaster."  The whole process was, infact, gone
through in a "shoddy and scrappy" manner, the judges observed.

* Future plans demolished: the full bench not only threw overboard the
sanction accorded by the state government for establishing the private
and medical colleges but also demolished the future possibility of such
colleges based on capitation fee in disregard of merit coming up in the
state.
	On the Government's claim that the recommendations of the
expert committee had been accepted in toto in the selection of
application and grant of permissions, the vench observed that the
committe report and the related record exposed the "limits of the
shoddy and scrappy manner in which a statuatory committee can discharge
its solemns offers."

* Pound devaluation unlikely to affect Indian trade

the devaluation of the pound sterling is unlikely to have a major
impact on India;s trade account and money marker as the bulk of India;s
foreign trade is in US dollars.
	However, it is felt that financial indiscipline and crisis
prevailing in the European money markets could force Britain and other
countries to put on hold their investment plans in India besides having
an adverse effect on Indian exports realisation. About 40 per cent of
exports are still in pound. Importers on the other hand stand to gain
but it would not neutralize the loss to the exporters as imports are
far lower than the exports.

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