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Two engg. colleges facing disaffiliation

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI June 20. The Anna University is likely to disaffiliate courses offered by two engineering colleges, one in Chennai and the other in Kancheepuram district, where expert panels found serious deficiencies. The Syndicate, which met here three days ago, discussed the recommendations of the committees and decided to start the process of disaffiliation.

It also decided to recommend re-distribution of the students to other colleges.

The University would soon recommend to the All-India Council for Technical Education that approval for the Sakthi Engineering College, Chennakuppam in Kancheepuram and the J.A Institute of Engineering and Technology be withdrawn, said a university spokesman.

Already, based on complaints from students and various quarters, the university sent show-cause notices to the colleges. The expert committees visited the institutions separately and found certain deficiencies. The committees made a second visit earlier this month to see whether the deficiencies had been removed.

But still, according to university officials, the colleges lacked adequate laboratories, computer facilities, buildings and amenities for students, besides an efficient faculty.

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