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Students, beware! The course you are pursuing may not be an approved one.
Prominent management and engineering institutes across the country have come under the scanner of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for running technical programmes without its approval.
AICTE is a regulatory body for technical education.
A list of nearly 134 institutes, prepared by AICTE, cites various undergraduate and postgraduate courses being operated without the recognition of the council.
Most of the institutes are in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The AICTE has now asked the state governments to take suitable action against the erring institutes, said SS Mantha, officiating chairman of the AICTE.
Of the 134 institutes, around 57 are in Maharashtra (Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Nashik).
Of this, around 26 are in Mumbai, including Elphinstone College, Fort; Hindustan Institute of Technology & Management, Borivli; and WLC College of India, Mahalaxmi.
The AICTE has also sent another defaulters’ list which has names of institutes running technical programme with foreign collaborations, but without the approval of the council.
These institutes — 67 in total — are in Maharashtra, New Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
Of these, Maharashtra has 19 institutes including 14 in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane.
Kohinoor College of Management, Dadar, and Welingkar Institute of Management & Research, Matunga, are two such colleges.
“We will check whether the courses are approved by any other authority, state, university or the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University,” said SK Mahajan, director, directorate of technical education. “If we find that they are not sanctioned, we will ask them to stop admissions and then decide on next course of action.”
