JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) has collected a penalty of Rs 30 lakh from 38 affiliated engineering colleges for ignoring the shortage of faculties.
The RTU has penalised these colleges with Rs 25,000 for each fake faculty shown by them during the inspection.
Strangely, after paying the penalty amount of Rs 25,000, the colleges were allowed to run their session without meeting the required number of faculties.
This came to light in response to an RTI application filed by activists Manoj Kamra and Sandeep Gupta.
Kamra accused the RTU of adopting this faulty policy in which you pay the penalty and enjoy the immunity for a year.
"Most of the colleges which violated the rule had paid the penalty very happily as they were aware that paying Rs 25,000 a year is a better option than paying Rs 25,000 and above to a faculty every month," added Kamra.
Both the activists contended that this practice will encourage other institutes to adopt similar methods as they pay an average package of Rs 3.5 lakh to a fresher (teacher).
They accused that this rule is in gross violation of UGC and AICTE guidelines which say that the affiliation of an institute should not be renewed if it doesn't have required number of faculties.
"Ideally, the RTU should have filed a police complaint against these errant colleges for violating our law. On the contrary, it bent the rules to favour them," said Gupta.
Such a practice is a gross violation of UGC guidelines as these colleges had furnished fake information regarding teachers in affidavits to the RTU while seeking affiliation.
The maximum penalty of Rs 2 lakh was paid by Sikar-based Sobhasaria Engineering College.
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