1510 of 2018 Page 2 of 35 undertakes 11 undergraduate companyrses and 23 postgraduate companyrses.
No admissions were made after 29th July, 2009.
1510 of 2018 Page 1 of 35 with degrees granted to regular students who have undertaken such companyrses in TIET, Patiala and other recognised universities.
The petitioners had taken admission in the prestigious deemed to be university verily believing that all approvals were in place.
The petitioners, relying on the judgment of this Court in Bharathidasan University and Another v. All Writ Petition Civil No.
acquired by them through open and distance learning mode from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, hereinafter referred to as TIET, Patiala are valid, recognised and should be treated at par Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by RACHNA Date 2019.08.29 165219 IST Reason Writ Petition Civil No.
The petitioners highlight that TIET, Patiala, rated as one of the premier engineering universities companyleges by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, was set up in 1956 for promoting the study of technical education and has a 250 acre campus located in Patiala with teaching faculty strength of 391, including 301 Ph.D. holders, and Writ Petition Civil No.
UGC is refusing to treat the technical degrees issued by TIET, Patiala under distance learning mode as valid, primarily for the reason that the B.Tech.
There were numberoff campus centres or study centres and all instruction, practicals and examinations were companyducted on the campus of TIET, Patiala using the same faculty and infrastructure as used in the traditional B.Tech.
companyrses companyducted by TIET, Patiala were without their approval and approval of the All India Council for Technical Education hereinafter referred to as AICTE .
Distance Education Council hereinafter referred to as DEC vide its letter dated 3rd September, 2007 had granted provisional recognition to TIET, Patiala for offering programmes through distance mode for a period of one year on the basis of which TIET, Patiala had offered B.Tech.
degree in Civil Computer Science Electrical Mechanical Engineering to working professionals who already had a diploma and had at least two years experience in the respective branches in engineering in the academic years 2007 08 and 2008 09.
This was done by limiting Bharathidasan Universitys supra application to companyrses programmes integrally adjunct companynected to the sanctioned and permitted companyrses and programmes, and number to new and different companyrses programmes like award of B.Tech.
degree companyrse through the distance mode programme on the basis of companypetitive examination companyducted by TIET, Patiala, which is deemed to be a university under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 hereinafter referred to as UGC Act .
1510 of 2018 Page 3 of 35 India Council for Technical Education and Others,1 have argued that a deemed to be university is number required to seek prior approval of the AICTE to start a department for imparting a companyrse or a programme in technical education.
Reference was made to paragraph 49 of the judgment of this Court in Orissa Lift Irrigation Corporation Limited v. Rabi Sankar Patro and Others2 hereinafter referred to as Orissa Lift Irrigation Corporation Limited I to assert that TIET, Patiala, being a premier institution authorised to undertake companyrses and issue degrees in the aforesaid technical fields, was number required to take any approval of the AICTE.
Reliance was also placed on the order and judgment dated 10th April, 2018 in Civil Appeal Nos.
The petitioners who are diploma holders in Civil Computer Science Electrical Mechanical Engineering and working in the Government of Punjab have stated that they were selected for the Tech.
3697 3698 of 2018 in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University v. The Chairman and Managing Director, Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited.
SANJIV KHANNA, J. The petitioners, 92 in number, in this writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India have prayed for directing the University Grants Commission, hereinafter referred to as UGC to issue a clarification that the degrees of Bachelor of Technology hereinafter referred to as B.Tech.
The total strength of students is more than 8000 with nearly 700 research students doing Ph.D. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council, an autonomous body established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, has accredited the said institution deemed to be university Grade A status besides placing the institution in Tier I accreditation.
