PUNE: The list of colleges that have been asked to stop fresh admissions by University of Pune (UoP) includes professional colleges of famous educational institutes in the city.

Majority of colleges without full time principals belong to professional streams like law, architecture, engineering, computer science, pharmacy and education.

The UoP has published a list of 347 colleges without principals and 132 institutes without full time directors on Tuesday.

The varsity has directed these colleges and institutes to stop fresh admissions for coming academic year.

Pune district obviously has highest number of such colleges and institutes.

Professional colleges of prominent educational institutes in the city are also running without full time principals or directors, the list reveals.

Educational institutes and colleges include, Modern Education Society (Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology, College of Engineering), Deccan Education Society (Brihan Maharashtra College of Education), Bharatiya Kalaprasarini Sabha's College of Architecture, Marathwada Mitra Mandal's College of  Architecture, Vidya Pratishthan's Vasantrao Pawar Law College, MIT Women Engineering College, Progressive Education Society’s College of Pharmacy and Sinhgad Technical Education Society (Institute of Architecture).

Majority of the colleges in the list belong to the law, architecture, computer science, pharmacy and education faculties.

It could not be known why so many colleges were left without full time principals.

If these colleges indeed made genuine efforts but could not find suitable candidate, it vindicates private management’s stand about professional colleges.

Interestingly, the newly started Government College of Engineering at Avasari too is without a full time principal.

The list also reveals that as many as 100 colleges with traditional Arts, Commerce and Science faculty also don’t have full time principals.

Majority of these defaulter colleges are from Ahmednagar and Nashik district and obviously have no justification for flouting the Court's order.

PVT INSTITUTES TOO WANT EXTENSION

Private educational institutes which have been barred from fresh admissions claim that the Supreme Court’s decision to extend time limit applies to them as well. “If the legal opinion says otherwise, individual institute or all institutes together will have to approach Supreme Court to get similar relief,” said chairman of Progressive Education Society Gajanan Ekbote.