Come April, Anna University to inspect infra of affiliated colleges

Vice-Chancellor R Velraj said the university will focus on colleges with poor enrolment and placement rate. 

Anna University has decided to inspect the infrastructure of affiliated private engineering colleges with poor enrolment and placement rates from April, The News Indian Express reported.  

Anna University has 494 affiliated colleges 

Officials of the university, which has a total 494 affiliated colleges, said strict action will be taken if a college is found lacking in infrastructure.  Anna University Vice-Chancellor R Velraj said enrolment exceeding 80 per cent reflected a college’s sound infrastructure. “As such, we will not waste time conducting physical inspection at such colleges. Instead, we will focus on those colleges with poor enrolment and placement rate.” 

He said that, this year, no leniency would be shown to the colleges found without enough faculty, classrooms, laboratories, etc. It’s better if such colleges were shut as they would only be creating problems for the university and students, Velraj said. 

In 2022, the university inspected the infrastructure of all its affiliated colleges. It was found that almost 50 per cent of the colleges lacked necessary infrastructure. The university had later sent show-cause notices to 225 engineering colleges after which a majority of them resolved the issues and submitted compliance reports. 

“Last year, affiliation of only four colleges weren’t renewed over lack of infrastructure. We were a bit lenient as the colleges had just reopened after the pandemic. This year, we will thoroughly check the infrastructure of the colleges, especially of those that failed the inspection last year,” said a university official. 

Colleges without facilities may face disaffiliation 

The officials said that last year, the colleges were given ample time to resolve their shortcomings and show-cause notices were issued twice or even thrice. This year, however, the affiliation of colleges without enough infrastructure would not be renewed. 

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