HYDERABAD: Justice G Radha Rani of the Telangana high court refused to allow students who took admission into MBA (Big Data Analytics) and MBA (Digital Marketing) courses to appear for their first semester examinations if their colleges started these courses without obtaining permission from the JNTU.
The judge pronounced this order while dismissing the petition filed by Polkam Karthikeya and 28 other students from Swamy Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Secunderabad, that started these courses without approval from the JNTU. The state government through advocate general BS Prasad informed the court that the JNTU has not approved these two courses, MBA (Big Data Analytics) and MBA (Digital Marketing). It did not grant affiliation to any college in respect of these courses. No such permission was accorded to the college that admitted the petitioners, he said.
Justice Radha Rani in her order said that the college did not apply to the university seeking details of the syllabus for these two courses. “Even the university was not aware of the syllabus. The university cannot prepare question papers for a subject without knowing the syllabus. No committee from the university visited the college to see the syllabus it was teaching, the teachers, their qualifications, and the other infrastructure required for running these courses,”the judge said.
