VTU appointing incompetent principals

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BANGALORE: If you are expecting to improve engineering education quality, check this. Many of the principals of engineering colleg..

BANGALORE: If you are expecting to improve engineering education quality, check this. Many of the principals of engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) are from nonengineering background. Thanks to the VTU authority, which is allowing such principals, violating the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) norms.
The Local Inquiry Committee (LIC), which submitted their report to VTU, reveals that many engineering colleges, both private and government, affiliated to the university do not have qualified principals. It says that principals from these colleges have Master of Science in Chemistry, Applied Geology and Mathematics.The report says that the principal from the Sri Basaveshwar Institute of Technology at Tiptur in Tumkur district, is not qualified as per AICTE norms. Interestingly, LIC report of the previous also stressed on the same matter. Principal from the Rural engineering college, Hulkoti, Gadag is also from science background.

Not just in education, some of them are not qualified in terms of age. When AICTE has prescribed maximum age limit for principal's post 65 years, the LIC report said that some of them are 65 years and above.

Even while unqualified persons holding engineering college principals, the government SKSJT in Bangalore has a different role. The principal has an additional incharge, he also holds the post of principal for the evening college.