Expressing concern over the poor percentage, Dr Vinod Mohitkar, Director of Technical Education (DTE) told ‘The Hitavada’, “Our Minister Chandrakant Patil and Secretary Vikas Rastogi have already directed institutional heads to get their NBA assessment done as early as possible. The department is taking efforts to help these institutes get accredited, as the assessment would improve the quality of technical institutions in the State.” Dr Mohitkar was in Nagpur on Sunday to attend the workshop on ‘Role of Accreditation in Institutional Building: An NEP 2020 Perspective’ jointly organised by DTE and Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management (RCOEM).

Of the 4,500 technical courses including of Architecture, engineering, pharmacy, HMCT, Post SSC and HSC Diploma in Engineering, 1,035 are not eligible to get NBA accreditation. There are 535 accredited courses and 216 have applied for the same. The number of courses have NBA accreditation is very poor which is the cause of concern. The schemes like Parissparsh floated by Minister would bring all technical institutions together and go ahead with a thought of improvement.

“The main reason of engineering institutes facing seat vacancy is lack of quality and poor job placement of several colleges. Both can be improved if they go for NBA accreditation. Assessment of oneself develops a scope for improvement. Vacancy issue has not improved since long, despite measures being taken by the Government. It is expected that the new courses like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Data Sciences may attract more number of students to take them leading to rise in admissions,” felt Dr Mohitkar. Dr Mohikar also shared that state is working speedily in the direction of implementing the NEP 2020.