he Council of Higher Education will issue notices to 497 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, asking why they should not be shut down for not having proper infrastructure and enough teachers and students.
The move comes after the K Lakshminarayana Committee that was set up to find out if the state's 672 engineering colleges had proper infrastructure and faculty reported that 497 colleges did not.
These colleges mostly employ part-time teachers and do not have the required infrastructure,the committee found. At least 200 of them "do not have enough students to make running of the colleges viable".
Secretary for Higher Education M D Christopher said these colleges will be told "to take immediate steps to recruit faculty or shut down".
"The quality of education in these colleges is really not up to the mark," he said. "The state government has taken a serious view of complaints of Vice Chancellors at the conference where Governor E S L Narasimhan was present."
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