Show-cause notice to be served to 2 engineering colleges affiliated to VTU

VTU Belagavi has decided to issue show cause notice to PDA College of Engineering in Kalaburagi and Basaveshwara College of Engineering in Bagalkot considering the delay in submitting renewal of autonomous status. 

The future of hundreds of students enrolled in two government aided autonomous engineering colleges in Karnataka is at stake as the colleges have not received the autonomous status renewal from the University Grants Commission (UGC) since three years, Deccan Herald reported. 

Considering the delay in submitting renewal of autonomous status, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) Belagavi has decided to issue show cause notice to PDA College of Engineering in Kalaburagi and Basaveshwara College of Engineering in Bagalkot. 

VTU Vice-Chancellor Prof Vidyashankar S said it was decided in the recent executive council meeting to issue final show cause notice to these colleges. “Definitely there is a lapse from the university side too because on what basis they have allowed these institutions to continue with the autonomous status when there is no renewal document submitted. We will ask for an explanation even from the officials who were in charge of it,” said Vidyashankar. 

As per the procedure, when an institution gets autonomous status they get both administrative and academic autonomy under which the institutions will frame curriculum, conduct examinations and award degrees with the approval from the university. For this, the institutions must submit the renewal of letter to the university as per the norms, the report added. 

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