Ordinance to curb unrecognised institutions awaits state govt nod

Institutions offering professional courses without the approval from All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) or any other competent authorities continue to thrive in the state in the absence of a legal framework to crackdown on such institutes.

Institutions offering professional courses without the approval from All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) or any other competent authorities continue to thrive in the state in the absence of a legal framework to crackdown on such institutes.

In a fresh case,some students of WLC College in Pune confronted the college administration asking refund of their fees after they discovered that the college,which is offering undergraduate and post-graduate management courses,was running without a formal approval from the AICTE or any other authorities from the past seven years.

However,Director Sanjib Nag was unperturbed by the development and defended the college.

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The state cabinet had recently cleared the long-pending and much-talked about special ordinance to curb the menace of such institutes. However,there is uncertainty over when it would come into force.

Titled Maharashtra Unauthorised Educational Institutions and Unauthorised Courses Prohibition Ordinance,it was withdrawn from a state cabinet meeting in October,2011 when some ministers objected to it. Later,after getting the nod from the cabinet in March,2012,the ordinance could not see light of the day as it could not be implemented.

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