All India Council for Technical Education man arrested

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested Dr K. Narayan Rao, member secretary of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from an engineering college owner of Andhra Pradesh.

The CBI said the seized amount was the first instalment of the Rs 20 lakh deal struck for giving approval to the college. A middleman, Mr S.B. Subba Rao, was also arrested.

Dr Narayan Rao hails from Andhra Pradesh and has worked in Osmania College of Engineering for nearly three decades and had faced several corruption charges during his stint there.

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Students forced to miss exam

In a shocking incident, the management of Guru Nanak Engineering College on Monday locked up about 150 students and prevented them from writing their first year annual exam.

The college officials were angry because the students wanted generators to be switched on in their hostels, which were plagued by power cuts for the last three days. Enveloped in darkness, the students could not study for the exams.

On Monday, some students broke a few windowpanes and tables in protest.The college management simply locked up about 150 hostellers to get them to identify the attackers. About 130 students were released in the evening, hours after the exam ended.

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Ragging: The shame of campuses

Ragging continues to plague many college campuses in the state despite all attempts made by authorities to curb it.

Last week, senior students of a reputed engineering college in the city attacked juniors in the hostel with chilli powder after forcibly undressing them.

Such incidents of physical abuse and stripping have been reported from many other professional colleges in the city as well as Dundigul, Keesargutta, Vijayawada and Guntur.

However, most college managements usually prefer to hush up such incidents for fear that they would mar their reputation.

There are stringent provisions against those who indulge in ragging in the AP Prohibition of Ragging Act 1997. Cases can also be booked under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code. However, the strength of the law has not succeeded in ending the pernicious practice.

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