NAGPUR UNIVERSITY TOI NEWS : Already mired in controversies for its decision to defer the engineering examinations, the Nagpur University seems to be heading for another trouble. This
time, senior academician Dhananjay Mandlekar has written a letter to AICTE chairman SS Mantha complaining of blatant flouting of rules by NU administration by postponing the exams and also asking the engineering colleges to complete the mandatory 90-day syllabus within just 30-day period with a view to allow illegally admitted students to appear in the exams.
Mandlekar has attached TOI reports to the letter, demanding a high-level probe and subsequent action against senior NU officials, including VC Vilas Sapkal, for flouting rules to allegedly favour private engineering colleges mostly owned by politicians and education barons. PRO Prashant Mohite could not be contacted for his comments.
Sources disclosed that Mandlekar, while citing ordinance number 6, had alleged that the VC's decision to allow students who can't complete the mandatory 75% attendance was in gross violation and which pave the way for making false ratification of the students admitted illegally by the colleges.
Further citing ordinance number 2 of AICTE, Mandlekar stated that a minimum of 90 days' teaching in an academic calendar was required for any student to become eligible for appearing in the university exams. But NU was allowing hundreds of graduate (BE) and postgraduate (ME/MTech) engineering students to appear in exam without completing the said requirement even after it was deferred by two months.
The senior academician claimed that NU had already breached section 82(5) of Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994, by permitting many engineering colleges to not only admit ME/MTech students before granting affiliation but also allowing such illegally admitted students to appear in the exam.
As per this section, any new college getting affiliation from the university after July 15 should get permission to operate from the next academic year. But in NU's case, these colleges, mostly run by politicians and education barons, had already admitted students before getting affiliation on October 30. They then allegedly pressured VC to postpone exams even as the decision was categorically opposed by pro-VC Mahesh Yenkie, controller of examinations (CoE) Vilas Ramteke and registrar Ashok Gomase.
NU also flouted section 83(6) the Act which stated that no student shall be admitted by the college or institution unless the first time affiliation has been granted by the university to it.
Mandlekar blamed Sapkal for his failure to handle the situation despite hailing from the engineering fraternity. Citing vision document by the VC in his biodata to the chancellor where he mentioned that his aim will be to make professional education quality centric, Mandlekar slammed him for deferring the exam under political pressure which had affected over 60,000 students and disrupted their academic calendar.
time, senior academician Dhananjay Mandlekar has written a letter to AICTE chairman SS Mantha complaining of blatant flouting of rules by NU administration by postponing the exams and also asking the engineering colleges to complete the mandatory 90-day syllabus within just 30-day period with a view to allow illegally admitted students to appear in the exams.
Mandlekar has attached TOI reports to the letter, demanding a high-level probe and subsequent action against senior NU officials, including VC Vilas Sapkal, for flouting rules to allegedly favour private engineering colleges mostly owned by politicians and education barons. PRO Prashant Mohite could not be contacted for his comments.
Sources disclosed that Mandlekar, while citing ordinance number 6, had alleged that the VC's decision to allow students who can't complete the mandatory 75% attendance was in gross violation and which pave the way for making false ratification of the students admitted illegally by the colleges.
Further citing ordinance number 2 of AICTE, Mandlekar stated that a minimum of 90 days' teaching in an academic calendar was required for any student to become eligible for appearing in the university exams. But NU was allowing hundreds of graduate (BE) and postgraduate (ME/MTech) engineering students to appear in exam without completing the said requirement even after it was deferred by two months.
The senior academician claimed that NU had already breached section 82(5) of Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994, by permitting many engineering colleges to not only admit ME/MTech students before granting affiliation but also allowing such illegally admitted students to appear in the exam.
As per this section, any new college getting affiliation from the university after July 15 should get permission to operate from the next academic year. But in NU's case, these colleges, mostly run by politicians and education barons, had already admitted students before getting affiliation on October 30. They then allegedly pressured VC to postpone exams even as the decision was categorically opposed by pro-VC Mahesh Yenkie, controller of examinations (CoE) Vilas Ramteke and registrar Ashok Gomase.
NU also flouted section 83(6) the Act which stated that no student shall be admitted by the college or institution unless the first time affiliation has been granted by the university to it.
Mandlekar blamed Sapkal for his failure to handle the situation despite hailing from the engineering fraternity. Citing vision document by the VC in his biodata to the chancellor where he mentioned that his aim will be to make professional education quality centric, Mandlekar slammed him for deferring the exam under political pressure which had affected over 60,000 students and disrupted their academic calendar.
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