Madurai:
The Madras High Court bench on Wednesday directed Anna University of Technology (AUT) to inspect an engineering college run by a trust of Union Minister M K Alagiri, restricting their scrutiny to 'three deficiencies' pointed out by an earlier AUT panel in its July report.
"It is not open to the university to inspect all the facilities available in the college," a Division Bench of justices M.Satyanarayanan and D.Hariparanthaman said, disposing of two miscellaneous petitions filed by the Anna University of Technology.
The court also granted time till May 31, 2012 to inspect the respondent college strictly in accordance with its order of July 25, 2011 when it said only "three deficiencies" should be inspected.
It also directed the Daya Engineering college at Sivarakottai near here, run by the M.K. Alagiri Educational Trust, to extend cooperation to the inspection committee of the AUT, Madurai, to comply with the court orders.
The college had filed a plea seeking to direct the AUT to affiliate it from academic year 2011-12 and permit it to admit students. The college contended that they had got approval of All India Council for Technical Education.
However, the AUT was not giving affiliation on the ground of three deficiencies viz transport, books in library and cafeteria near classroom. The college had rectified the deficiencies. But even then affiliation was not being granted.
The court then ordered the AUT to restrict their inspection to three deficiencies. However, the AUT said they wanted a re-inspection of amenities in the college and other facilities.
It said it was open to the university to consider the issue afresh with regard to affiliation as per the court order. The AUT alleged that the college was not cooperating with the inspection team.
The judges said they could restrict their inspection only to three deficiencies and report if they had been rectified as per statutes.