No faculty, no courses: JNTU-Kakinada

 

According to sources, many engineering colleges are imparting ME courses without proper infrastructure and faculty. The students of those colleges are also not attending classes as they work in private companies and joined the college only to get certificates.

 

The colleges are also not forcing them to attend classes as they do not have proper faculty. If they recruit faculty, they have to pay salaries according to norms of the AICTE. Each college should have a professor, with Ph.D qualification, one associate professor and two assistant professors and other faculties in each department. 

 

Unable to bear the burden of salary expenditure, the colleges are failing to recruit proper faculty and also not providing proper labs and other infrastructure facilities.

 

“As a part of increasing standards in engineering colleges, we would not allow admissions in such colleges. However, we will give an opportunity to such colleges if they cancel some of the branches that do not have faculty and infrastructure,” said JNTU-K VC V.S.S. Kumar. 

 

According to sources, 75 per cent of ME colleges which are having specialisations may not allow admissions in such departments. The JNTU-K is liberal in giving permissions to the colleges in B.Tech admissions in view of the state government's stand that no student should not move to other states due to delay of admissions. 

 

The University has ample time to inspect colleges offering masters. “After completing bachelors or masters the student should find employment or become an entrepreneur. We want to raise the bar in these colleges,” said Mr Kumar.