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High Court takes VTU to task for not sticking to norms

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday has criticised the action of Visvesvaraya Technical University (VTU) in transferring engineering students from one college to another in Bijapur without following the norms.

The court indicated that it will come down heavily on VTU and its officials if it did not, on its own, rectify the mistakes made while transferring engineering students from SECAB College of Engineering to BLDE Engineering College.

The court was dealing with appeals by SECAB and other institutions which had challenged a single judge’s order directing the transfer of students from their institutions and permitting their disaffiliation.

The court had earlier stayed the disaffiliation proceedings and directed both the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) and VTU to inspect SECAB and file a report on the infrastructure facilities available at the institution. Even as the reports were filed, SECAB contested the VTU report and said that the university is biased against it. The college, in its affidavit, had levelled serious allegations against the VTU.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph and Justice S. Abdul Nazir had directed VTU to respond to the allegations and file a counter.

In its affidavit filed by the Registrar, the VTU claimed that the infrastructure available in SECAB was short of ACITE requirements. It said that 431 of the 578 engineering students of SECAB had been transferred, after counselling, to BLDE Engineering College. Since many students did not want to go out of Bijapur, the VTU had allotted BLDE college to them, he said.

The Bench sought to know how the VTU could admit students over and above the intake prescribed by the AICTE. When the VTU said it would need time to examine the proposal, the Bench remarked that counselling for engineering seats by the CET Cell had already started. The Bench indicated that it would allow admissions to the college this year.

The Bench adjourned further hearing on the case to Thursday.

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