COIMBATORE: A self-financing engineering college promoted by family members and acquaintances of Union Chemicals Minister M K Alagiri in Madurai was among the 11 new institutions which received the green signal from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Wednesday to start admissions from the academic year 2011-12.While five of the new institutions are located in Coimbatore region, three would come under the Madurai region and one each in Chennai, Tiruchy and Tirunelveli.Tamil Nadu will get 3,240 additional BE/BTech seats on account of the new approvals. Of these, 660 seats each will be added to Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical and Computer Science Engineering branches; 600 seats in the Civil Engineering course, 480 in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 120 in Information Technology and 60 seats in the Automobile Engineering branch.According to sources in the AICTE, after scrutinising the applications submitted by the new institutions, its expert committees cleared the approval for the Dhaya College of Engineering in Madurai, which would be run by a Trust in which Alagiri’s acquaintances are office-bearers. The institution will offer five branches.The colleges in Coimbatore region that have received the AICTE’s nod are K S R Institute for Engineering and Technology, Muthayammal Technical Campus, N S N College of Engineering and Technology, Sri Shanmugha College of Engineering and Technology and Rathinam Technical Campus. The two institutions that will start in Madurai are C R Engineering College and SSM Institute of Engineering and Technology. In addition, the AICTE has also given permission to four new polytechnic colleges and two MBA institutions.
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