AICTE drops plan to introduce ‘shift polytechnics scheme’

However,TAFNAP argued that it would lead to uncontrollable growth of polytechnics in which quality of education will suffer. TAFNAP filed the PIL in Bombay High Court against the scheme. On June 16,AICTE submitted an affidavit withdrawing the scheme.

Meanwhile,the TAFNAP has alleged that huge amount of donations are taken for the direct second year admissions to engineering diploma courses. “There are ten per cent seats reserved for the class 12 (technical) passed students in engineering diploma courses. Though the admissions are to be done purely on merit,some diploma institutes accept donation from the students,” said Shreedhar Vaidya,secretary of TAFNAP. He has appealed to the students to register complaints against such cases with TAFNAP or contact at 9422048509.

The TAFNAP has also welcomed the decision of the state government to conduct the admissions of the polytechnics through centralised admission process (CAP) from this academic year. “The TAFNAP wanted all the polytechnics including un-aided to be a part of CAP. However,some un-aided polytechnics are not participating in the CAP. TAFNAP has requested the government to do the admissions of these polytechnics under the supervision of a government supervisor to control irregularities,” said Vaidya.