Hyderabad: After cancellation of affiliations to 143 erring engineering colleges in the State, the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Hyderabad (JNTU) has decided to inspect the colleges for the affiliation in the first week of April. The university would inspect all the engineering and pharmacy colleges for granting affiliation for academic year 2015-2016. During earlier inspections conducted by the university, 143 erring colleges were disaffiliated for lack of facilities and a few colleges were informed off their deficiencies.

JNTU authorities said the university would go tough on the colleges which do not follow the norms laid by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the university. Meanwhile, the JNTU has formulated and circulated guidelines for the recruitment of the faculty members in the affiliated colleges. According to the guidelines, colleges should issue notification for recruitment in newspapers along with qualifications. After issuance of notification, colleges should constitute a selection committee for each specialisation as per norms and apply for university nominee.

As per the guidelines, the colleges should conduct interviews in the time slot, venue provided by the university and release selected list on the last day of interviews. The university has also come up with faculty registration portal to crack down fraudulent practices by the colleges. Officials said all the affiliated colleges should register information like qualification, experience, date of joining, photograph etc of the faculty through the portal and obtain a registration number. The portal will also allow faculty who are intending to join to an affiliated college to register. The university officials said colleges should use registration number for all future references.