UPTU colleges under scrutiny for awards

To find whether any of its affiliated colleges is suitable to get the Academic Excellence Awards, 2008, the UP Technical University (UPTU) has constituted a nine-member high-level committee.

In the next stage, another five-member committee will finalise the names of the colleges for the award from the short-listed ones. The university has also directed all its affiliated colleges to submit their performance reports by December 31 for the assessment, which would be done by January, 2009. Ironically, the UPTU did not find any of the affiliated colleges worthy of receiving the award last year, when it was instituted.

The excellence awards include one overall academic excellence trophy, three awards for best BTech degree colleges, one award for

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bestBArch/BPharma/BHMCT college, one award for best MBA college and one award for the best MCA college.

The assessment committee is led by Professor Damodar Acharya, Director of IIT- Kharagpur and former Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and consists some well-known academicians and professionals.

“The members will evaluate the performance of the technical colleges through various aspects,” said Professor Prem Vrat,Vice-Chancellor, UPTU.