BANGALORE
Council has refused to regularise increase in quota for diploma students in undergraduate courses.
A day after the state department of higher education resolved the issue of obtaining approvals for the existing 167 engineering colleges from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), it has encountered a fresh problem.
Official sources at the department told DNA that they were planning to move the court against AICTE as the council had not accepted their request to increase the number of engineering seats for students opting for a lateral entry.
The state government had increased the intake of diploma students into engineering courses through lateral entry from 10% in 2003 to 15% in 2009. The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) had received 16,000 applications for the 6,000 available seats for lateral entry into engineering courses. Even the number of polytechnics offering diploma courses had increased from 120 to 273. “We did not want to disappoint meritorious seat aspirants. Hence, we increased the percentage, and AICTE had to regularise this,” officials at the department said.
During a recent visit to New Delhi, state higher education minister Aravind Limbavali had requested AICTE officials and the Union minister for human resource, Kapil Sibal, for regularisation of the increase in percentage of seats offered for diploma students in engineering courses.
However, during the June 28 meeting, the council officials decided against theregularisation.
“After the meeting, when I checked with the AICTE officials, they said the regularisation would not be done. If they do not oblige, we will fight legally,” said a senior official of the state department.
“The AICTE should have considered it as an exceptional case. Instead, AICTE officials reasoned that the request had come only from Karnataka, and no other state in the country. We do not know the situation in other states, but there is a need to increase the percentage from last year in Karnataka,” the official said, adding that the council officials had also stated that increasing the number of seats could affect the quality of education.
“I do not understand this reasoning, as we plan to increase only three seats per college. I don’t know how this will affect the quality of education being imparted. It is highly impractical. AICTE is not the controlling authority and they should oblige,” the official said.
Meanwhile, officials who attended the general council meeting of AICTE on Monday confirmed to DNA that the council had given approvals to all the existing 167 engineering colleges in the state for the academic year of 2010-11, and that the list would be published on June 29 or 30.
Though the list was not available until Tuesday evening, KEA officials said they were expecting to receive it on June 30.
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