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Andhra Pradesh

Panel to inspect engineering colleges

By Our Special Correspondent

VISAKHAPATNAM, AUG. 27. The State Government will constitute a technical advisory committee (TAC) to monitor the functioning of engineering colleges.

Announcing this here on Friday, the Minister for Technical Education, Nayani Narasimha Reddy, said that the committee would inspect a few colleges every three or four months to find out the quality of education imparted, whether they had good faculty or not or whether they violated the norms, and recommend to the All-India Council for Technical Education for suitable action.

"The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, is planning to constitute the committee at the earliest. We should ensure that quality education is imparted as only a few are going abroad for jobs," he said. Reeling out statistics, he disclosed that there were 234 engineering colleges with 79,550 seats, 51 B. Pharma and 52 D. Pharma colleges with 3,000 seats each, 215 MBA colleges with 13,080 seats and 268 MCA colleges with 14,360 seats. Besides, there were seven colleges offering architectural engineering course with 234 seats, 82 Government ITIs and 437 private ITIs with over one lakh seats.

Asked whether more engineering colleges would be set up, the Minister felt that might not be necessary since the seats in many engineering colleges, particularly in the rural areas, remained unfilled.

In Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad districts alone there were as many as 43 colleges, he pointed out.

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