BENGALURU: Considering the lack of infrastructure and low admissions, the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has disaffiliated over 800 technical and management institutions across the nation, including six from Karnataka. Two private engineering colleges, including one each from Bengaluru and Kalaburagi, have been recommended for permanent closure with effect from 2018-19 academic year. Rest four are management and science institutions offering MBA and MCA courses. Appa Institute of Engineering Technology, Kalaburagi; Nandi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru; Institute for Technology and Management, Bengaluru; Mount Carmel Institute of Management, Bengaluru; RS College of Management and Science, Bengaluru and Danamma Channabasavaiah Institute of Management Science, Kolar are the colleges which are likely to close down.
The institutes which have been issued closure notice are not allowed to admit students for batches starting from 2018. Those who have already got admissions can continue till they get their graduation certificates.
According to AICTE sources, some of these colleges requested for closure on their own as they were not able to get sufficient students. “The engineering college from Bengaluru requested for closure and we agreed,” said an official source from the AICTE.
Across the nation, the AICTE has recommended for closure of 800 such institutions of which 200 are engineering colleges. Over 150 such colleges are from Tamil Nadu. With the latest closure notice, the engineering seats will come down in India by 80,000.
“As the number of engineering seats falling vacant every year is increasing across the nation, the AICTE has decided to shut down substandard engineering colleges. As per our data, the actual enrolment at engineering colleges has come down by 1.86 lakh since 2012-13 academic year, and annually there is fall of about 75,000 engineering seats across the nation,” said an official from AICTE on the condition of anonymity.
List of colleges that will shut down
Appa Institute of Engineering Technology, Kalaburagi
Nandi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
Institute for Technology and Management, Bengaluru
Mount Carmel Institute of Management, Bengaluru
RS College of Management and Science, Bengaluru
Danamma Channabasavaiah Institute of Management Science, Kolar
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