Three engineering colleges have been given autonomy in Nagpur University (NU), but the teething troubles seem far from over for all those involved, colleges, students and NU. The new status of the colleges has thrown up many complexities, a case in point being students desiring to shift from one autonomous college to another, or from one NU college to an autonomous one or vice versa.
Yashwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE) was the first to get autonomous status, followed by GH Raisoni Engineering College (GHRCE) and recently Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru College of Engineering (RKNEC) got the coveted status.
However, NU, to which all these colleges are affiliated, has not yet framed rules regarding transfers between or from such college, and the related standards of eligibility. This has led to several problems for colleges and students.
Recently, parents blamed GHRCE administration for not providing eligibility certificate to students, which is required if a student wants to shift to another college. The parents also faced an unresponsive administration at the NU in this matter.
The parents, who don't wish to be named, told TOI that their wards had cleared the first year of engineering and wished to take admission in second year at RKNEC. "Just to collect their original documents, our wards were made to run from pillar to post for the last many days," a parent claimed.
GHRCE officials on other hand blamed the NU, telling parents that the issue had to be sorted out with NU authorities and a high-level meeting will be called along with vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal soon. Each time the parents approached the management with any queries, the authorities kept deferring all replies to a later date.
A parent claimed that his child had scored a high percentage and wants to move to another college, but the GHRCE authorities were 'deliberately' delaying the process and not returning the original documents. Without these documents, the student cannot take admission anywhere else.
Another parent added, "We can't take any legal action as documents are with the college. They may harass our wards more in the future. We've no other option but to wait. I simply don't understand the logic behind going through a long and tiresome procedure just to withdraw admission."
GHRCE director Preeti Bajaj admitted that parents had approached her with this problem. "Since the college is autonomous, we have to align the dates of admission according to directorate of technical education ( DTE) and NU while also following certain norms. There are guidelines laid down for the second year admissions, but not for the final year," she said.
NU registrar Mahesh Yenkie pleaded ignorance about the problem of issuing eligibility certificates, though he admitted that due to complete autonomy of GHRCE across all four years of engineering, they are facing many problems. "Many of their students from second year onwards, who failed in NU exam, now have different marksheets - one from NU for a particular semester and the other from the college," he said. nm
Yashwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE) was the first to get autonomous status, followed by GH Raisoni Engineering College (GHRCE) and recently Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru College of Engineering (RKNEC) got the coveted status.
However, NU, to which all these colleges are affiliated, has not yet framed rules regarding transfers between or from such college, and the related standards of eligibility. This has led to several problems for colleges and students.
Recently, parents blamed GHRCE administration for not providing eligibility certificate to students, which is required if a student wants to shift to another college. The parents also faced an unresponsive administration at the NU in this matter.
The parents, who don't wish to be named, told TOI that their wards had cleared the first year of engineering and wished to take admission in second year at RKNEC. "Just to collect their original documents, our wards were made to run from pillar to post for the last many days," a parent claimed.
GHRCE officials on other hand blamed the NU, telling parents that the issue had to be sorted out with NU authorities and a high-level meeting will be called along with vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal soon. Each time the parents approached the management with any queries, the authorities kept deferring all replies to a later date.
A parent claimed that his child had scored a high percentage and wants to move to another college, but the GHRCE authorities were 'deliberately' delaying the process and not returning the original documents. Without these documents, the student cannot take admission anywhere else.
Another parent added, "We can't take any legal action as documents are with the college. They may harass our wards more in the future. We've no other option but to wait. I simply don't understand the logic behind going through a long and tiresome procedure just to withdraw admission."
GHRCE director Preeti Bajaj admitted that parents had approached her with this problem. "Since the college is autonomous, we have to align the dates of admission according to directorate of technical education ( DTE) and NU while also following certain norms. There are guidelines laid down for the second year admissions, but not for the final year," she said.
NU registrar Mahesh Yenkie pleaded ignorance about the problem of issuing eligibility certificates, though he admitted that due to complete autonomy of GHRCE across all four years of engineering, they are facing many problems. "Many of their students from second year onwards, who failed in NU exam, now have different marksheets - one from NU for a particular semester and the other from the college," he said. nm
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