Hyderabad, June 20: Shift system in engineering colleges might come to an end from this year. The state government has decided not to allow polytechnics which function from engineering colleges to admit students from this year.
Interestingly, the evening classes for polytechnics were introduced in 33 engineering colleges with All India Council for Technical Education’s (AICTE) permission last year.
In fact, the names of these polytechnics which started functioning from academic year (2009-10) are not included in the list of colleges which will conduct counselling for admissions from June 23. This would mean that they will not be allowed to admit students this year.
Managements complained that no notice was given to them before the state government decided not to include the colleges in the counselling list.
“Neither AICTE nor the state government has communicated to us why we are not allowed to participate in counselling and admissions,” said Ravi Kumar, secretary, Consortium of Private Engineering College Managements Association (CPECMA). The shift system was introduced in engineering colleges with the strong recommendation of the state government last year.
“The state government last year had asked college managements to use their buildings more efficiently by allowing evening classes to be held. Since there is a high demand for polytechnic seats they decided to introduce polytechnic classes in the evening,” said a management representative.
Management representatives said that they would challenge the government decision in court.
——-Agencies