Straight talk from an anonymous architect in Ahmedabad
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The thugs at Council are at it again. Coercing new educational institutes to bribe them for granting recognition or threatening to put their name on their website where theyve derecognised an institute/ college. A team of three architects (academicians, practitioners, active members) visits to physically examine a college when the Council has to grant or renew its recognition which enables students graduated from the same to obtain registration from Council.
They carry an elaborate evaluation format to account for the infrastructure, academic strength and other support facilities to students. The visitors interact with faculties, personally examine the laboratories, library, classrooms and other ancillary and note down their findings. Proper paperwork is always submitted. On the basis of adequateness emerging out of this visit, Council is able to determine if an institute/ college is good enough to impart architectural degree worth recognising.
Now for quite some time, this is the situation: Whether their team comes for the first time or to renew the CoA, they are either assumed corrupt, or, actually are corrupt. Most of us know someone who has been asked to entertain them or pay them off when they come visiting an existing institute.
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