The Brahmapur Nagarika Manch (BNM) has demanded parity in the matter of AICTE approval to technical colleges in Odisha and an inquiry into the delay in granting approval to the Parala Maharaja Engineering College (PMEC) at Brahmapur.
BNM member and former Deputy Speaker of Odisha Legislative Assembly Ram Chandra Panda has written a letter to the Union Minister of Human Resource Development in this regard. In the letter, Panda said the PMEC and the Government College of Engineering in Bhawanipatna, established by the State Government in 2009 for development of technical education in backward regions, has failed to get necessary approval from the AICTE.
He stated that these colleges have sound infrastructures with good hostel facilities. For example, the PMEC has 37 teachers and a student intake capacity of 63 in each of its four departments. These facilities are not available in many other colleges, including some private ones. But why the AICTE is delaying giving approval to the two colleges, he has questioned.
“I am told that the advisor of the AICTE has informed its regional office in Kolkata to process the (approval) application of the above college (PMEC) for 2012-13. The regional office has not taken any concrete steps so far to process the matter, thereby creating uncertainty in the minds of the students and their parents,” said Panda.
Panda referring to the public perception said some private institutions with lesser infrastructures have been approved by the AICTE while there is delay in case of these Government colleges not because of grounds of merit but obviously for other reasons.
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