M-Tech courses flout Supreme Court norms

KOCHI: Several engineering colleges under MG University which have just sprouted are running MTech courses raising a question mark over their credibility and also the future of the students enrolled there for the course.

According university sources, the Supreme Court had directed that MTech should be allowed only in  colleges that have completed four years of operation and produced the first BTech graduates. The state government also decided to follow this and issued a special order stipulating that colleges with 25 percent pass in first year, 30 percent  in second year, 35 percent  in third year and 40 percent  in fourth year BTech should only be allowed to conduct MTech courses.

With this order coming into existence, the MGU syndicate committee for inspecting the engineering colleges decided not to inspect such colleges for sanctioning MTech courses. Following this, managements from Ernakulam and Thodupuzha approached  Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb who in turn allowed relaxation in this condition. Altogether, nearly 20 engineering colleges benefited from this.

“Now there are engineering colleges conducting MTech courses without the facilities for even BTech courses. But there is no quality control and monitoring and officials in the university are not in a position to intervene and set things right. With the delay in MTech  results declaration, the students are  a harried a lot, especially in these colleges with poor infrastructure and faculty,” said an official.