Faculties in engineering colleges are being axed by managements who have lost hopes of getting approvals from the government even in the ensuing academic year (2015-16). With the Telangana government being strict with erring engineering colleges, the college managements see no hope of getting JNTU-Hyderabad affiliation to run courses.

About 20 engineering colleges out of 170, which failed to secure approvals from the state government this year, have applied for “NOC” seeking closure. JNTU officials expect about 50 colleges to apply for closure by this month-end, resulting in removal of more teaching and non-teaching staff.

The managements have stopped payment of salaries of faculty for the last four months and have started issuing termination letters.

Shocked by their abrupt removal, the faculty members are now approaching JNTU-Hyderabad to stop the issue of NOCs for closure unless their salaries and arrears are settled and they find new jobs. They argue that it was not their fault but of the managements’ who failed to meet the prescribed norms of having adequate faculty and infrastructure and they were now being made scapegoats. Some managements are forcing the faculty to work in multiple colleges belonging to the same group if they want to be continued in the job.