Engineering Colleges with Vacant Seats will not Receive AICTE Accreditation

If the engineering colleges of Maharashtra fail to achieve 30% admissions of the total approved seats for at least 5 consecutive years, All India Council for Technical Education will deny the fresh approval to the concerned colleges as per the new rules set by AICTE for the year 2017-18.

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The move is a part of the efforts of AICTE to handle the issue of the vacant seats in several engineering colleges of the state. There are a number of engineering colleges in the state that have failed to fulfill even the 30 percent of seats for many consecutive years. The prime reason behind this could be that they lack some of the basic facilities, to begin with.

The new norms were published in the handbook of guidelines which state that the courses of the institutions will no longer be continued (with the approval of the council) if it fails to achieve 30% admissions for 5 consecutive years.

The move has got mixed reaction from different quarters of the industry. They argue that colleges are being given approval after losing the marks by few points.

Dayanand Meshram, Joint Director of DTE said that not all colleges that have vacant seats will be taken into the purview of the new guideline. Some of the colleges that are on the borderline of achieving the desired target cannot be included under these regulations.

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The new rules set by AICTE are mandatory for all engineering colleges in the state for the year 2017-18. Colleges that do not comply with the new rules and regulations will face punitive actions.

These punitive actions may include:

• No Admission
• Fine
• Reduction in seats
• Withdrawal of approval
• Criminal action