Hyderabad: Government District Institute of Education and Training may down shutters

With no NCTE affiliation for 2024-25, the college was removed from admission counselling and the last batch of students passed out in August 2024, leaving benches and classrooms empty.

Hyderabad: Is the over 60-year-old Government District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) Neredmet heading for a permanent closure? Ongoing crisis in the college indicates it might be.

With the college failing to receive affiliation for the academic year 2024-25, it has been excluded from the web-based counselling for admissions to the two-year diploma in elementary education and pre-school education programmes, leaving with no enrollment.

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The School Education Department conducted the diploma in elementary education common entrance test – 2024 on July 10 and announced results on July 24, 2024. While nine other government DIETs and 44 private colleges found a place in the web-based counselling, this institute could not make it over affiliation issue.

The issue sprang up after the National Council for Technical Education (NCTE) refused to renew affiliation to this college over lack of enough faculty members. Other factors including not clearing inspection fees also compounded the issue.

During the academic year 2023-24, the NCTE withdrew its recognition as the institution failed to submit a reply to the final show cause notice issued by its southern regional committee. Due to this, admissions were not taken in the first year. The existing second-year students completed their course in August 2024, leaving benches and classrooms empty.

The college came into being in 1964 with an intake of 300, including 150 seats in the first and second-year of the programme in English, Urdu and Telugu mediums. Each medium had 50 seats. For the past several years, this college has been most sought after among local BC, SC and ST and communities with almost all seats in English and Urdu medium programmes filled every year.

“Had the School Education Department taken up the issue seriously, the college would have got affiliation from the NCTE. Presently, there are no students in college. At least now, the Department must make a strong pitch and ensure that the college gets its affiliation from the NCTE in the forthcoming academic year,” said Kasturi Ravinder, one of the part-time lecturers in the college.

According to official sources, the Department wrote a letter to the NCTE seeking recognition for the institution. “There are two services- pre-service and in-service teacher training in the institution. Only pre-service recognition has been withdrawn by the NCTE in 2023. We have written to NCTE, hoping that the college will receive recognition in the next academic year,” sources added.