Committees appointed by the Mumbai University have pointed out the lack of basic infrastructure in private unaided engineering colleges.
MUMBAI: Committees appointed by the University of Mumbai have pointed out the lack of basic infrastructure like laboratories and libraries in private unaided engineering colleges affiliated to it.
The local inquiry committees had been appointed to visit 42 colleges and decide whether their affiliations with the University of Mumbai should be continued. The report reveals the poor state of well-known colleges like Rizvi College and KJ Somaiya College of Engineering going by AICTE standards.
The lacunae in facilities like computers, labs, toilets, teaching and non-teaching staff become more glaring viewed in the light of the hefty fees charged by these private unaided engineering colleges.
In fact, the committees have also pointed out that in a number of cases, the fees remain unutilised.
KY Rajput, member of a local inquiry committee, said: “While scrutinising these colleges, we found some trying to produce false accounts. Thus we felt the need for more time to conduct the investigations. We also observed that many colleges lacked adequate teaching staff.”
Each year the university appoints 12 committees comprising three senior teachers, members of the university’s academic council and the board of studies to prepare extensive reports.
Irregularities mentioned in the report prepared by the probe panels for ’07
Atharva College of Engineering Malad
- Yet to appoint a regular principal
- Lack of non-teaching staff.
- No approved librarian, training placement officer and registrar
- No reading room for students.
- No lab attendants in laboratories.
Thadomal Shahani College of Engineering Bandra
- Lack of sanitation facilities.
- No computers with upgraded software.
- Inadequate laboratory area for IT and bio-tech department.
- No proper canteen
- Lack of adequate teachers
- Poor facility in the library
M.H Saboo Siddique College of Engineering
- Inadequate built-up area for computer and civil department
- Poor canteen and drinking water facility.
- Absence of sports facility for students
- Yet to upgrade computer facility in the electronics department. No Internet. Qualification of the principal not as per the AICTE norms.
Rizvi College of Engineering Bandra
- Few computers and no Internet access
- Need to improve campus placement and cultural activities.
- 100 per cent syllabus not covered
- Teaching load allotment improper
- Student’s council not formed
Parshwanath College of Engineering Thane
- Infrastructural facilities inadequate. Land and building are shared by its polytechnic and pharmacy college
- Inadequate lab equipment/instruments
- Few computers
- No gymkhana or playground
- No Internet
- Unnecessary penalties or fine imposed on students.
KC College of Engineering
- Inadequate built-up area
- Inadequate laboratory equipment/instruments
- No canteen
- No gymkhana or playground
- Teachers appointments not as per AICTE norms
- Governance improper
Shivajirao Jondhale College of Engineering
- Play ground not maintained properly
- No Internet facility
- Poor in campus placements
- Poor drinking water facility
- Unhygienic food in college canteen
- Teachers not been paid as per AICTE norms
- Yet to appoint principal on regular basis
Pillai’s Institute of Information Technology and Engineering
- Non-availability of computer software as per the syllabus
- No of laboratories and infrastructure insufficient
- Teachers’ appointment not as per university norms
- Poor on organising training programmes for faculty upgradation
- No proper teaching timetable
- Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
- No separate building for boys and girls hostel
- No quarters for the principal, teaching and the non-teaching staff
- Non availability of an approved and regular principal till date
- Shortage of technical supporting staff
- No separate placement officer
- No common room, especially for the girls
- Inadequate gymkhana facilities
K.J Somaiya College of Engineering and Information Technology
- Shortfall of instructional, administrative and residential area
- Shortage of tutorial rooms for students
- Shortage in textbooks, reference books, international and national journals
- No proper Internet connectivity
- No separate hostel facilities
- Poor library facilities
- Shortage in technical supporting staff
- Non-availability of senior or experienced professors and assistant professors
FAILED
Atharva College of Engineering
Thadomal Shahani College of Engineering
MH Saboo Siddhique College of Engineering
Rizvi College of Engineering
Parshwanath College of Engineering
PASSED
SIES College of Engineering
Terna College of Engineering
Sardar Patel College of Engineering
Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering
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