Deccan chronicles,Chennai: The Madras high court has directed the Centre to answer as to why it should not appoint an expert body/commission to analyse problems of engineering education, revisit approval norms, standards of teaching, unfilled seats in colleges, employment prospects and to suggest remedial measures to improve the quality of education.
Justice N. Kirubakaran gave the directive while passing interim orders on a petition from C. Naresh Kumar, an engineering graduate, who along with 139 others was cheated by S. Subramani of Infolink Private Limited on the promise of offering software training and subsequent placement of job by collecting `45,000 from each candidate.
The judge also directed the Union and TN governments, AICTE and Anna University to answer 10 queries which included how many colleges had been in existence in India since 1980 (statewise details), how many seats were being filled from 2000, how many engineering graduates were coming out every year and how many were getting placement and why AICTE did’t stop approving new engineering colleges in view of more unfilled seats and less employment opportunities.
The judge said even though the petitioner and B.E candidates were cheated in 2008, the accused got an anticipatory bail in 2009 which was cancelled in 2011. Soon, he obtained the second bail with an undertaking to settle the amount to the affected persons, but no serious steps were taken by police. So, the affected engineering graduates were constrained the move the court.
