Two engineering colleges without Nagpur University nod in DTE list

NAGPUR: Two engineering colleges under Nagpur University's jurisdiction are among the 11 from across the state who have not submitted affiliation letters to the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE).

The DTE has cautioned students and parents while opting for certain branches in these institutions and that admissions in such courses would be subject to submission of affiliation letters.

Surprisingly, the DTE has clarified the affiliation status, it has included them in the option list which the students would be selecting now.

Admissions to information technology offered by Nagpur’s Govindrao Wanjari College of Engineering and Technology, and civil and electrical engineering by RV Parankar College of Engineering and Technology, Arvi, would be confirmed only after these institutes comply with the norms.

Parankar College is among the 248 colleges, to which admissions have been freezed by NU for different reasons. The college has been denied continuation of affiliation as it failed to appoint requisite number of teachers for both these courses. TOI could not confirm why Wanjari College couldn’t submit the affiliation letter.

Also, 11 colleges have shut admissions but as per regional DTE office records it appears they are still included. In the statewide list of 348 engineering colleges, names of only 47 belong to Nagpur region. But, the regional DTE office has been counting 56 colleges. The tally was same last year indicating that the list has not been updated.

The statewide list too is stale. VM Institute of Engineering & Technology Dongargaon, that was shut a couple of years ago, has been carried at Sr. no 167 having code 4285 and intake capacity of 300.

In the last couple of years, some more colleges have closed admissions for first year or have completely shutdown. Acharya Vinoba Bhave Institute of Technolgy, Pavner, Om College of Engineering, Wardha, National Power Training Institute, Central India College of Engineering, ITM College at Kamptee, Suresh Deshmukh College at Wardha, Namdeorao Poreddiwar College of Engineering, Gadchiroli, and Bhausaheb Mulik College of Engineering at Butibori are among the the closed institutes.

It is not clear if the DTE continues to include them in its list for the region.