Hyderabad: Cracking the whip on errant polytechnic colleges, the Telangana Board of Technical Education and Training has rejected affiliations of nine colleges in the State. The decision of the board comes after the managements failed to meet the requirement to run colleges.

As reported in these columns earlier, the Principal Secretary of Education served a memo to the board that affiliation would only be issued upon inspection of the colleges. The board which conducted inspections in the colleges rejected affiliations to four second shift colleges and five private polytechnic colleges, sources said.  

Currently, there are 265 polytechnic colleges including government and private in the State and there are about 68,000 seats in all the 265 colleges. According to an official, second shift colleges are run in Engineering colleges. “When the Engineering colleges alone do not have facilities, how will polytechnic colleges under second shift function in them?” questioned an official.

Meanwhile, 8,181 candidates attended on the day one of the certificate verification process on Thursday. After verification process, the candidates can exercise web options from June 28 to July 1. Candidates can change their frozen web options on July 2 and seats will be allotted on July 5.