No action on professors who falsified reports yet
The All India Council for Technical Education has expressed its disappointment over the state government’s delay in initiating action against 15 professors accused of submitting false inspection reports in order to start new engineering colleges and increase admissions in the existing colleges in the state over the past two years.
Even though the AICTE submitted the list of errant professors to the government in February this year urging disciplinary action, including heavy penalties, against the professors, the government is yet to initiate the action. The CBI has asked the government to allow it to prosecute the errant professors, a request that has been pending with the government for over four months. Out of the 26 professors who submitted false inspection reports to the AICTE from across the country, 15 professors are from Andhra Pradesh.
Professors from Osmania University, Kakatiya University, Andhra University, NIT Warangal, etc. have figured in the list. Disappointed with the inaction, the AICTE has “blacklisted” the professors and banned them from being deployed for inspection duties or any other AICTE activities in the future. The CBI conducted raids on several engineering colleges across the state between 2009 and 2011 following the arrest of the then AICTE member-secretary Narayan Rao in New Delhi in July 2009 for allegedly accepting a `5 lakh bribe to give approval for an engineering college in the state. It found that some professors on AICTE inspection teams had colluded with the managements of engineering colleges and submitted false reports to the AICTE, stating that the colleges complied with the norms on faculty and infrastructure, even though it was far from truth.
The CBI found that the inspection teams had submitted their reports and recommended to the AICTE for the grant of approval without even visiting the concerned colleges.
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