HYDERABAD: Not a single central university, state university or private college from Telangana has figured in the recently released Swachhta Rankings-2017 of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
A total of 25 Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) figured in the rankings, which were awarded in four categories — Universities, Colleges, Technical institutions and Government institutions. As many as 3,500 HEIs had participated in the survey. Teams from University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) inspected the premises of 174 institutions of the 3,500. The top 25 institutions were ranked, including one from Andhra Pradesh in the Technical institutions category, but not one Telangana insitution figured in the rankings
When contacted officials of well-known central and state universities in Hyderabad said that they did not participate in the survey. Some did not even know that such a survey was being conducted, although UGC had sent a letter to all Vice Chancellors on July 20 and said in that they needed to inform affiliated colleges about the survey. Time was given till July 31 to apply. However, University of Hyderabad, English and Foreign Languages University, Maulana Azad National Urdu University and Osmania University did not even participate.
HEIs from Tamil Nadu fared the best in the survey with 12 HEIs figuring among the top 25. Interesting, none were in the Universities category, which was dominated by private varsities. In Universities category OP Jindal Global University-Sonepat topped followed by Manipal University-Jaipur, Chitkara University-Solan, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research and Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra.
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Kongu arts and Science College-Erode topped the Colleges category, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham-Coimbatore, topped in Technical institutions category and GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology-Pantnagar, topped in Government institutions category.
85 percent weightage was given to-campus hygiene, which included availability of toilets and their condition in hostels and academic buildings, drinking water quality and green cover on campus.
15 percent weightage was given for activities conducted outside campus