State denies Second Shift permission to engineering colleges

The State government stuck to its stand and rejected second shift in all the engineering colleges that got permission from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The college managements received letters on Monday stating that permission cannot be given to them for failing to provide facilities and not meeting the requirements on staff-student ratio, qualifications of principals and other infrastructure issues.

This means, more than 85-colleges that were hoping to offer B.Tech. courses in the second shift will not be able to do so this year, at least.
The colleges had earlier gone to the court stating that the government was not permitting them despite AICTE permission. The court said that the government can not blindly deny permission when they fulfilled all the norms.

Based on court directions, the three JNT Universities sent a report to the government giving their opinion on the facilities in the colleges.

Officials who have gone into preparing the report say that they found some glaring mistakes in the permissions given by the AICTE itself apart from lack of infrastructure and other facilities.
A senior official said that second shift was supposed to be permitted in colleges where at least one batch had passed out so far.

But the AICTE gave permission to colleges that did not fulfil this norm.
Moreover, it has also given permission to streams that don't exist in the first shift. For example, a college that got permission for Mechanical course in the second shift doesn't actually offer the course in the first shift itself. Colleges have to appoint a Dean for the second shift but even this norm was not fulfilled.