Just how engineering colleges get accreditation from the National Board of Accreditation by making false claims about the faculty's academic qualification came to light recently in case of two institutions – one from Tamil Nadu and the other from Andhra Pradesh.
In 2009 NBA, the apex autonomous body to grant accreditation in the country, sent a team to evaluate four academic programmes of Sasurie College of Engineering, Vijayamangalam, Erode, in Tamil Nadu. The institute was already approved by the All India Council of Technical Education. The team found that apart from various weaknesses, it had one faculty member – Venkata Subba Raju Ganja – who claimed to have a Ph.D from AllahabadUniversity.
A year earlier in 2008, one member of the NBA expert team had found one M Venkata Rao from an engineering college in Andhra Pradesh who too claimed to have done Ph.D in engineering from Allahabad University. The NBA expert asked Rao about Allahabad and on finding that he had little idea about the city from where he claimed to have done Ph.D got suspicious. The expert wrote to Rajan Hershe, the then vice-chancellor of Allahabad University, asking him for details of Rao. But Hershe did not reply. Then, the case of Ganja happened.
The same expert who had become suspicious filed an RTI last year in Allahabad University asking for details of Ganja and Rao. Allahabad University replied that the Ph.D certificates shown by Ganja was fake. As for Rao, the university said he was never awarded D.Phil. (On the lines ofOxford University, Allahabad University also awards D.Phil, and not Ph.D).
Strangely, Allahabad University, instead of getting alarmed by people producing forged degrees, said in the RTI reply that no "question has been raised to initiate any further administrative action".
The fake degree issue involving Ganja resurfaced on Friday when Sasurie College of Engineeringofficials appealed against NBA's decision not to grant accreditation. When contacted, S Nithiyanandam, principal of Sasurie College of Engineering, said he was aware of the case but since he is new it would take time to take action. AICTE chairperson SS Mantha said he would take action when he received the NBA's report.
In 2009 NBA, the apex autonomous body to grant accreditation in the country, sent a team to evaluate four academic programmes of Sasurie College of Engineering, Vijayamangalam, Erode, in Tamil Nadu. The institute was already approved by the All India Council of Technical Education. The team found that apart from various weaknesses, it had one faculty member – Venkata Subba Raju Ganja – who claimed to have a Ph.D from AllahabadUniversity.
A year earlier in 2008, one member of the NBA expert team had found one M Venkata Rao from an engineering college in Andhra Pradesh who too claimed to have done Ph.D in engineering from Allahabad University. The NBA expert asked Rao about Allahabad and on finding that he had little idea about the city from where he claimed to have done Ph.D got suspicious. The expert wrote to Rajan Hershe, the then vice-chancellor of Allahabad University, asking him for details of Rao. But Hershe did not reply. Then, the case of Ganja happened.
The same expert who had become suspicious filed an RTI last year in Allahabad University asking for details of Ganja and Rao. Allahabad University replied that the Ph.D certificates shown by Ganja was fake. As for Rao, the university said he was never awarded D.Phil. (On the lines ofOxford University, Allahabad University also awards D.Phil, and not Ph.D).
Strangely, Allahabad University, instead of getting alarmed by people producing forged degrees, said in the RTI reply that no "question has been raised to initiate any further administrative action".
The fake degree issue involving Ganja resurfaced on Friday when Sasurie College of Engineeringofficials appealed against NBA's decision not to grant accreditation. When contacted, S Nithiyanandam, principal of Sasurie College of Engineering, said he was aware of the case but since he is new it would take time to take action. AICTE chairperson SS Mantha said he would take action when he received the NBA's report.
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