Court allows four engg colleges to fill up extra seats

Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Monday allowed four private colleges to fill additional seats in computer science engineering stream without collecting any donations or capitation fee from the students.A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J Sreenivas Rao made this interim order while hearing the contempt pleas of the four private colleges which wanted the court to punish the education authorities for not implementing the court orders.The colleges were: Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Malla Reddy College of Engineering for Women and MLR Institute of Technology. The high court earlier directed the authorities to conduct a mop-up round counselling to fill the additional seats which were approved by AICTE. Stating that these colleges were closing the seats and sections of other engineering streams and were running them as computer engineering colleges, the state govt refused to allow the additional intake. Both the high court and the Supreme Court had earlier directed the state govt to allow the private colleges to fill the additional seats. The govt claimed that it filed a review plea before the Supreme Court which may come up soon. But the high court bench rejected this argument and said the state was somehow trying to skip the Oct 23 deadline to deprive the colleges of filling their additional seats. "We will deal with the contempt later. But, for now, we are allowing the colleges to fill the seats without waiting for the nod of the state," the bench said while adjourning the contempt case to a few weeks.
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