Widening its net in the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) scam, the CBI has found the involvement of its former chairperson Damodar Acharya, who is now the director of IIT-Kharagpur.
In an investigation report sent to the HRD ministry in May, the agency also found involvement of five others in different cases of illegal approval to technical institutes. The CBI has named R A Yadav, former chairman, AICTE; Y Venkateswara Rao, director, National Institute of Technology, Warangal; M S Palanichamy, former vice-chancellor, Tamil Nadu Open University; M Afshar Alam, faculty of management and information technology, Jamia Hamdard University and M Altaf Khan of department of commerce and business studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. CBI sources said the HRD ministry is yet to intimate action it has taken against these officials.
In case of Acharya, who was the chairperson of AICTE from May 16, 2005, to June 30, 2007, CBI's investigation shows that in 2005-06 a new system was started for extension of approval to technical institutes. It included submitting compliance report along with mandatory disclosures by the institutes for extension of approval. The compliance report was to be processed through an appraisal panel of three experts and based on that, the chairperson was to take decision on the extension of approval.
The case, involving Acharya, relates to Padmavathi Engineering College, which is run by Pachaiammal Educational Trust. In 2006-07, when the institute submitted to AICTE the proposal for extension of approval, an appraisal panel recommended to reduce the intake from 180 to 90 seats as it found 42.5% shortage in faculty members. Even the principal was not a post-graduate, and teachers were not paid AICTE pay scales.
In an investigation report sent to the HRD ministry in May, the agency also found involvement of five others in different cases of illegal approval to technical institutes. The CBI has named R A Yadav, former chairman, AICTE; Y Venkateswara Rao, director, National Institute of Technology, Warangal; M S Palanichamy, former vice-chancellor, Tamil Nadu Open University; M Afshar Alam, faculty of management and information technology, Jamia Hamdard University and M Altaf Khan of department of commerce and business studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. CBI sources said the HRD ministry is yet to intimate action it has taken against these officials.
In case of Acharya, who was the chairperson of AICTE from May 16, 2005, to June 30, 2007, CBI's investigation shows that in 2005-06 a new system was started for extension of approval to technical institutes. It included submitting compliance report along with mandatory disclosures by the institutes for extension of approval. The compliance report was to be processed through an appraisal panel of three experts and based on that, the chairperson was to take decision on the extension of approval.
The case, involving Acharya, relates to Padmavathi Engineering College, which is run by Pachaiammal Educational Trust. In 2006-07, when the institute submitted to AICTE the proposal for extension of approval, an appraisal panel recommended to reduce the intake from 180 to 90 seats as it found 42.5% shortage in faculty members. Even the principal was not a post-graduate, and teachers were not paid AICTE pay scales.
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