SC permits admission to AKTU faculties | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: In a reprieve to the Dr Abdul Kalam Technical College (AKTU), the Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday allowed it to increase the deadline for granting affiliation to schools, paving approach for admissions to 749 technical faculties and establishments within the state.
The choice has come as a serious reduction to candidates searching for admission in first yr engineering, administration and different programs providing over 1.3 lakh seats at AKTU-affiliated faculties throughout the state. The AKTU authorities introduced that the method of school choice-locking would start on Monday and the admission course of could be accomplished by September-end.
College students needn’t fear, we are going to make up for all losses: VC
Earlier, AKTU had failed to finish the affiliation course of in time and had approached the Supreme Courtroom to hunt extension of the deadline for school affiliation. Based on the official web site of the All India Council for Technical Schooling (AICTE), yearly a brand new school has to first apply for contemporary approval from AICTE after which get affiliation from AKTU. Beneath AICTE’s ‘extension of approval’ (EOA) rule, an current school has to use for an ‘approval extension’ from AICTE, and after getting approval, it has to use to AKTU for extension of affiliation.
The identical rule is adopted by the Pharmacy Council of India. Based on the AICTE web site, it had given approval to all faculties on June 30 and AKTU had one month until July 31 to grant affiliation, however the college couldn’t meet the deadline. Based on the educational calendar of AICTE, a technical college ought to full affiliation work by July 31. “We’ll maintain a gathering quickly. Thereafter, we are going to open the school choice-locking course of on Monday. Since we now have already began the admission course of and candidates have already completed registration, solely school choice-locking, seat allotment and charge submission must be completed,” mentioned AKTU vice-chancellor JP Pandey.
“College students needn’t fear We’ll make up for all of the losses. Our goal is to wind up the admission course of by September-end and start with the educational session 2023-24 from the primary week of October,” he added. A candidate, Abhinav Sen, who desires to pursue BTech at any AKTU-affiliated school, mentioned: “I used to be unsure if the admission course of could be accomplished or not.” “I’m completely satisfied that now I received’t have to depart the state for increased training,” mentioned Abhishek Dixit, one other candidate.