API Complaint Annauniv FacultyScam DVAC

23/07/2024
The Director,
DVAC Headquarters,
No.293, MKN Road,
Alandur, Chennai-600 016.
Dear Sir,
Subject: Complaint against Malpractice in Anna University Affiliation for

private Engineering Colleges by
1. Anna University -Center for Affiliation of Institutions
2. AICTE
3. Hundreds of affiliated Engineering Colleges
1. Arappor Iyakkam is an organization working towards Transparency

and Accountability in Governance.
2. This complaint is to bring to your attention, the malpractice in the

affiliation process to Anna University, of various Engineering colleges
in Tamil Nadu, for the year 2023-24. Based on our analysis of faculty
member data available On the Anna University website,
https:/ /www.annauniv.edu/cai/Head%20Quarters.php, we have
found that about 352 full time teaching faculty members are on the
rolls of more than one college, infact ranging between 2 to 11
engineering colleges at a given time. Refer to Annexure-1 for details.
3. It must be noted that there are different criteria that each Engineering
College must satisfy for them to be provided with affiliation/
accredition to Anna University and AIl India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) such as Infrastructure, lab facilities and sufficient
number of qualified teachers. Based on declaration by the college and
verification of them through inspection by Anna University (Center for
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Affiliation of Institutions) and AICTE, such approvals are given to the
colleges. The approval for the college as well as for the number of
students that each stream can intake is directly dependent on the
above factors. This approval process is designed this way because if
sufficient qualified people and infrastructure is not in place, it will
directly affect the quality of Education of the student.
4. Our complaint below shows that how various Colleges and Professors
in collusion with Anna University and AICTE involved in a major
malpractice inorder to fake the sufficiency of qualified people that has
a direct impact on the quality of Education to Children. This is a
complete breach of trust, fraud and cheating by the involved
Engineering Colleges, involved professors and involved public
servants of Anna University and AICTE. This requires the urgent
intervention of you to save the future of thousands of students if not
lakhs who will be directly affected by this illegality and fraud.
5. Anna University’s Center for affiliation of Institutions also called as

CAI has published the data of all colleges that are affiliated to them
after inspection and approval for the year 2023-24. The data has been
published in their website link
https://www.annauniv.edu/cai/Head%20Quarters.php. Arappor
Iyakkam used this data along with information accessed through RTI
regarding Inspection.
6. From the available data, it has been observed that about 353
individuals are present as full time faculty members in more than one
engineering college at the same point of time in the year 2023-24. This
was verified by identifying the photographs, date of birth and their
educational qualification. There are a few professors who are faculty
members of about 11 engineering colleges for the academic year 2023
-24. The below table shows the list of all professors who claims to be
working as full time faculty members in different colleges at the same
point of time. The same person is being claimed to be working in their
college as fulltime faculty members by different colleges at the same
point of time. It must be noted that Anna University’s CAI has visited
these colleges and has confirmed that the professors are working in
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full time faculty member in these different colleges at the same point
of time as well. This shows how rot and deep the collusion is.
Faculty Name and the list of different colleges he/ she is working No of
in 2023-24 at same point of time College
DR. S. MARICHAMY - DOB : 03/Jun/80 11
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College (Autonomous)-
Perambalur
M R K Institute of Technology-Cuddalore
A K T Memorial College of Engineering and Technology-kallakurichi
A R J College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruvarur
Angel College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruppur
Fatima Michael College of Engineering and Technology-Madurai
Kathir College of Engineering-Coimbatore
Meenakshi College of Engineering-Chennai
Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering-Virudhunagar
Rrase College of Engineering-Kancheepuram
Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology-Kancheepuram
DR. K. MURALIBABU - DOB : 05/Jun/80 11

Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering College-Namakkal
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College (Autonomous)-
Perambalur
Indra Ganesan College of Engineering-Tiruchirappalli
PSN Engineering College-Thirunelveli
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology-Thiruvallur
St Mother Theresa Engineering College-Tuticorin
Adithya Institute of Technology-Coimbatore
K S K College of Engineering and Technology-Thanjavur
SBM College of Engineering and Technology-Dindigul
Selvam College of Technology-Namakkal
Sri Venkateswaraa College of Technology-Kancheepuram
MR. M. ARANGARAJAN - DOB : 07/Jun/81 10

Park College of Technology-Coimbatore
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Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering-Kancheepuram
T S M Jain College of Technology-kallakurichi
Thirumalai Engineering College-Kancheepuram
Aishwarya College of Engineering and Technology-Erode
Apollo Engineering College-Kancheepuram
Holy Cross Engineering College-Tuticorin
Jayaram College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruchirappalli
Mahalakshmi Engineering College-Tiruchirappalli
Satyam College of Engineering and Technology-Kanyakumari
DR. S. VENKATESAN - DOB : 21/Jan/76 10

Bharathiyar Institute of Engineering for Women-Salem
Easa College of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore
Maria College of Engineering and Technology-Kanyakumari
Rathinam Technical Campus (Autonomous)-Coimbatore
Sri Ranganathar Institute of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore
Studyworld College of Engineering-Coimbatore
DR. S. VASANTHA SWAMINATHAN - DOB : 10/Jul/81 10

Global Institute of Engineering and Technology-Ranipet
PPG Institute of Technology-Coimbatore
St Mother Theresa Engineering College-Tuticorin
Sri Krishna College of Engineering-Ranipet
T J S Engineering College-Thiruvallur
DR. Y. PRAKASH - DOB : 29/Nov/72 9
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J J College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruchirappalli
T J Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu
ARM College of Engineering and Technology-Kancheepuram
Arul Tharum VPMM College of Engineering and Technology
(Formerly V P Muthaiah Pillai Meenakshi Ammal EngineeringCollege
for Women)-Virudhunagar
MR. N. KASILINGAM - DOB : 26/May/83 8

J C T College of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore
Oxford Engineering College-Tiruchirappalli
Agni College of Technology-Chengalpattu
Arjun College of Technology-Coimbatore
Shivani Engineering College-Tiruchirappalli
Sri Jayaram Institute of Engineering and Technology-Thiruvallur
Sri Krishna Engineering College-Kancheepuram
DR. S. KANNAN - DOB : 25/Jul/77 8

Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering and Technology-
Chengalpattu
G K M College of Engineering and Technology-Chengalpattu
M E T Engineering College-Kanyakumari
Madha Engineering College-Kancheepuram
Mohamed Sathak A J College of Engineering-Chengalpattu
DR. S. HARIHARASUDHAN - DOB : 16/Apr/79 8

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Sir Issac Newton College of Engineering and Technology-
Nagappattinam
Gojan School of Business and Technology-Thiruvallur
Jayamatha Engineering College-Kanyakumari
Rathinam Technical Campus (Autonomous)-Coimbatore
Udaya School of Engineering-Kanyakumari
DR. M. SELVAM - DOB : 16/Oct/69 8

Immanuel Arasar J J College of Engineering-Kanyakumari
Sasurie College of Engineering-Tiruppur
Shree Sathyam College of Engineering and Technology-Salem
DR. M. GOWRI - DOB : 01/Oct/78 6

PSN College of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous)-
Thirunelveli
Sree Sakthi Engineering College-Coimbatore
MR. P. MARIMUTHU - DOB : 15/Jul/88 7

Chendu College of Engineering and Technology-Chengalpattu
Indira Institute of Engineering and Technology-Thiruvallur
Prathyusha Engineering College (Autonomous)-Thiruvallur
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Sri Krishna Engineering College-Kancheepuram
DR. Y. RAVIKUMAR - DOB : 02/Jun/84 6

Madha Engineering College-Kancheepuram
Prathyusha Engineering College (Autonomous)-Thiruvallur
MR. M. MANIVANNAN - DOB : 02/Jun/84 6

Sri Venkateswara Institute of Science and Technology-Thiruvallur
Aishwarya College of Engineering and Technology-Erode
Jairupaa College of Engineering-Tiruppur
Sri Raajaraajan College of Engineering and Technology-Sivaganga
DR. S. SINGSLY JINO - DOB : 07/Oct/85 6

Jayamatha Engineering College-Kanyakumari
Mahalakshmi Engineering College-Tiruchirappalli
Maria College of Engineering and Technology-Kanyakumari
Shree Venkateshwara HiTech Engineering College-Erode
Sun College of Engineering and Technology-Kanyakumari
MR. M. RAJU - DOB : 03/Jun/85 6

Park College of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore
Agni College of Technology-Chengalpattu
DR. V. GAJENDRA KUMAR - DOB : 11/Jan/78 6
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Kings Engineering College-Kancheepuram
Narayanaguru College of Engineering-Kanyakumari
DR. V. PRIYA - DOB : 14/May/84 6

P G P College of Engineering and Technology-Namakkal
Paavai Engineering College (Autonomous)-Namakkal
PERI Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering (CBE)-Coimbatore
Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore
S S M College of Engineering-Namakkal
DR. J. RAJPRASAD - DOB : 16/Dec/79 6

Priyadarshini Engineering College-Tirupathur
Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering-Thiruvannamalai
Udaya School of Engineering-Kanyakumari
DR. R. KABILAN - DOB : 19/Jun/74 6

Muthayammal Engineering College (Autonomous)-Namakkal
Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering-Thiruvallur
DR. V. VENUGOPAL - DOB : 20/Jun/74 6

Bharathiyar Institute of Engineering for Women-Salem
J J College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruchirappalli
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Suguna College of Engineering-Coimbatore
MR. S. SUNDER RAJAN - DOB : 20/Mar/87 6

Sapthagiri College of Engineering-Dharmapuri
Sri Krishna Institute of Technology-Kancheepuram
DR. K. JEYAKUMAR - DOB : 25/Jan/73 6

DR. R. KABILAN - DOB - 19/Jun/74 6

Muthayammal Engineering College (Autonomous)-Namakkal
Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering-Thiruvallur
MR. S. SRIDHAR - DOB : 04/Jun/90 5

DR. R. BABU - DOB : 08/Jun/79 5
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PPG Institute of Technology-Coimbatore
Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology-
Chengalpattu
Mohamed Sathak Engineering College-Ramanathapuram
MR. S. THIRUPATHI - DOB : 09/May/92 5

Chengalpattu
Podhigai College of Engineering and Technology-Tirupathur
Shree Venkateshwara HiTech Engineering College-Erode
Sri Jayaram Institute of Engineering and Technology-Thiruvallur
DR. J. RAMAKRISHNAN - DOB : 10/Jul/90 5

Dhaanish Ahmed Institute of Technology-Coimbatore
Chengalpattu
Tagore Institute of Engineering and Technology-Salem
DR. K. RAMESH - DOB : 10/Jun/66 5

V R S College of Engineering and Technology-Villlupuram
Chengalpattu
MR. P. RAJARAJACHOZHAN - DOB : 12/Jul/91 5

Chendu College of Engineering and Technology-Chengalpattu
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MR. S. NANDHAKUMAR - DOB : 21/Jul/91 5

V S A Group of Institutions-Salem
Jairupaa College of Engineering-Tiruppur
Mahendra Institute of Technology (Autonomous)-Namakkal
DR. S. BALU - DOB : 27/Jun/81 5

PERI Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering (CBE)-Coimbatore
Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore
S S M College of Engineering-Namakkal
Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women (Autonomous)-
Namakkal
DR. K. VENKATARAMANA - DOB : 28/Mar/85 5

Global Institute of Engineering and Technology-Ranipet
DR. V. CHANDRASEKAR - DOB : 02/Apr/86 5

Sasurie College of Engineering-Tiruppur
Chengalpattu
Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology-
Chengalpattu
Mohamed Sathak Engineering College-Ramanathapuram
Rrase College of Engineering-Kancheepuram
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DR. S. BAMINI - DOB - 07/Jun/77 5
A V S Engineering College-Salem
Priyadarshini Engineering College-Tirupathur
Chengalpattu
SMK Fomra Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu
2. The entire list of all Professors/ Assistant Professors/ Associate

Professors who are working in more than 1 college at the same point
of time is attached in Annexure 1. From our analysis, we find that
these 353 persons are being claimed to work in 972 places in
different colleges in total.
3. It is only possible for 1 person to work as a full time faculty member

at one place at one point of time. Therefore, for example when 11
colleges have declared that Dr Marisamy is working in their college
in the year 2023-24, it is only possible that he is actually working as
a full time faculty member in a maximum of 1 college. Therefore, 10
other colleges must have fraudulently cheated to make themselves
eligible for the affiliation/ accreditation process of CAI.
4. It must be noted that the above table shown is only for professors
who are shown to work in 5 colleges or more. The entire list attached
in Annexure 1 shows that there are a total of 353 such
professors/Assistant Professors/ Associate Professors who are being
claimed by more than 1 college to be working with them as full time
faculty member.
5. Annexure 2 shows the evidence of Dr Marisamy and 9 other

professors who are shown to be working in many colleges.
6. Out of the 353 such persons, 175 persons have completed PhD in
Engineering. This shows that this malpractice is primarily taking
place not just at entry level lecturers or so but at the level of
Professors. It is extremely important for Engineering Colleges to have
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qualified professors who could teach the concepts of Engineering
with clarity amongst students. But instead of recruiting such
qualified people fulltime, the bulk of the above colleges seems to have
been involved in a massive fraudulent activity to avoid salary
expenses and instead portray the availability of these ghost
professors who appear only on paper and not in reality. Innocent
parents and students who want their children to undergo quality
education are swindled lakhs of rupees in the name of providing
quality education by showcasing these Doctorates while in reality
they are being taken for a ride by the management of the private
colleges.
7. It must also be noted that it is not just the Colleges and these ghost
Professors who are cheating the poor parents and students of
TamilNadu. Anna University and AICTE which provides affiliation
and accreditation to these colleges has a major role in this fraudulent
activity as well.
8. Role of Anna University’s Center for Affiliation of Institutions

(CAI)
a) Guidelines for affiliation of Engineering colleges to Anna
University
i. As per section 6 of the Anna University Statutes and
Regulations 2004 (as amended on 21-02-2007), the
prerequisite for applying for affiliation to Anna University is -
Any new college seeking affiliation for its academic
programme(s) or every college applying for affiliation for
academic programme(s) or for variation in intake in an already
affiliated programme(s) should produce the letter(s) of approval
from the AICTE as per the AICTE Act.
ii. According to the Anna University Statutes and Regulations
2004 (as amended on 21-02-2007), section 5.10, the college
shall have an adequate number of teaching and non-teaching
staff appointed on a full-time basis, with qualifications and
experience as prescribed in the Regulations.
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b) Process of affiliation
Every year,
i. An Inspection Committee constituted as per the
Regulations and AICTE norms shall inspect and submit the
report to the University in the specified format - Section 7.3
of Anna University Statutes and Regulations 2004 (as
amended on 21-02-2007)
ii. The Inspection Committee shall verify the summary sheet of
the faculty members working in the college, generated from
the web portal duly attested by the Principal of the College.
iii. In the physical Inspection, the Inspection team needs to
verify the Aadhar, PAN, experience certificate and
genuineness of the PhD degree certificate of the faculty
members.
iv. The Standing Committee on Affiliation constituted as per
the Regulations and AICTE norms shall scrutinize the
application for affiliation and review the reports of the
Inspection Committees and make appropriate
recommendations on affiliation of academic programme(s). -
Section 7.4 of Anna University Statutes and Regulations
2004 (as amended on 21-02-2007)
v. The decision on grant of affiliation to an academic
programme shall be made by the Vice-Chancellor taking
into consideration the recommendations of the Standing
Committee on Affiliation. - Section 7.5 of Anna University
Statutes and Regulations 2004 (as amended on 21-02-2007)
9. Accordingly, the then Director of Centre for Affiliation of Institutions

(CAI), Anna University, Prof.Dr.A.Elayaperumal sends a letter to the
Chairperson/Principals of Affiliated Colleges dated dated 29.04.2023
(Annexure 3).
10. It is clear from available data below that the inspection team
and the higher up officials are also party to this conspiracy and fraud
by different Colleges. Arappor Iyakkam had filed RTI regarding the
inspection and we were provided with the list of dates on which each
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of the colleges were inspected. The RTI information is attached in
Annexure 4.
11. A comparison with the duplication data of the Professors in
different colleges and the date of inspection revealed the following
information which proves the role of the inspection teams in the
approval process as well. Two inspections of two different colleges on
the same date has confirmed in the inspection that the same full
time faculty member is working in both the colleges. This shows that
the inspection teams have also played hand in glove with the
Colleges.
Table-2: Faculty who are part of 2 colleges with same inspection date.
Inspection
DOB-Name Date College-District
02/Jun/84- 26.05.202 Prathyusha Engineering College
DR. Y. RAVIKUMAR 3 (Autonomous)-Thiruvallur
02/Jun/84- 26.05.202 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
DR. Y. RAVIKUMAR 3 and Technology-Thiruvallur
07/Jul/85- 05.06.202 Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering

DR. E. GAJENDRAN 3 College-Namakkal
07/Jul/85- 05.06.202 Angel College of Engineering and
DR. E. GAJENDRAN 3 Technology-Tiruppur
07/Jun/81- 17.05.202
MR.M.ARANGARAJAN 3 Park College of Technology-Coimbatore
07/Jun/81- 17.05.202 Jayaram College of Engineering and
MR.M.ARANGARAJAN 3 Technology-Tiruchirappalli
08/Jun/79- 26.05.202
DR. R. BABU 3 PPG Institute of Technology-Coimbatore
08/Jun/79- 26.05.202 Mohamed Sathak Engineering College-
DR. R. BABU 3 Ramanathapuram
SRM Madurai College for Engineering and

10/Dec/87- 22.05.202 Technology (formerly Madurai Institute of
MR. A. RATHINAVEL 3 Engineering and Technology)-Sivaganga
10/Dec/87- 22.05.202 M A M College of Engineering and
MR. A. RATHINAVEL 3 Technology-Tiruchirappalli
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10/Jun/68- 05.06.202 SMK Fomra Institute of Technology-
DR. J. KALIAPPAN 3 Chengalpattu
10/Jun/68- 05.06.202 Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering
DR. J. KALIAPPAN 3 College-Namakkal
10/May/92- 02.06.202 Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and

MR. R. RAMKUMAR 3 Technology-Thiruvallur
10/May/92- 02.06.202 Sree Krishna College of Engineering-
MR. R. RAMKUMAR 3 Vellore
14/Jan/86- 23.05.202
DR. J. RAJA 3 Agni College of Technology-Chengalpattu
14/Jan/86- 23.05.202 Muthayammal College of Engineering-
DR. J. RAJA 3 Namakkal
15/Jun/68-
DR.G.SAMBASIVARA 26.05.202 Prathyusha Engineering College
O 3 (Autonomous)-Thiruvallur
15/Jun/68-
DR.G.SAMBASIVARA 26.05.202 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
O 3 and Technology-Thiruvallur
23/Feb/92- 27.05.202
MRS. P. SUDHA 3 T J Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu
23/Feb/92- 27.05.202 Sri Krishna Institute of Technology-
MRS. P. SUDHA 3 Kancheepuram
25/Jul/77- 18.05.202
DR. S. KANNAN 3 Kathir College of Engineering-Coimbatore
25/Jul/77- 18.05.202 Madha Engineering College-
DR. S. KANNAN 3 Kancheepuram
12. Annexure 5 shows the evidence from the Anna university CAI
website on how the above faculty members are shown to be present
in both colleges.
13. Even if the inspection dates are different, one could argue that
the Colleges may cheat the Inspection team by making the faculty
members available in 2 different locations on 2 different dates. But
you can clearly see from the above table that even when the
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Inspection date is the same, 2 different colleges have claimed to have
the same full time faculty member and the Inspection teams claims
to have verified their certificates, PAN, AADHAR etc for the same
person in 2 different colleges on the same date. This prima facie
proves that the Inspection teams of Anna University’s CAI are also
hand in glove in the above illegality.
14. It must be observed from the above table that persons like
Dr.S.Kannan has been verified by 2 different Inspection teams
during their inspections on the same date 18/05/2023 that Dr S.
Kannan is working in both Madha Engineering College,
Kancheepuram and Kathir College of Engineering, Coimbatore.
15. A mere verification of records of faculty members across
different colleges by the standing committee on affiliation or the Vice
Chancellor could have easily revealed the extent of duplication.
Prime facie, inspection members and other senior officials of Anna
University’s CAI are responsible for commission and omission of
their official duties before providing with the affiliation approval for
the colleges during the year 2023-24.
16. The scale and extent of this malpractice is huge. There are
many colleges where a number of faculty members are claimed to be
working with other colleges. The following table shows that 34 of the
full time faculty members of Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of
Engineering and Technology and 33 full time faculty members of TJ
Institute of Technology, Chengalpet are shown to be working with
other colleges as full time faculty member at the same point of time
in 2023-24. The below table shows the list of all colleges which has
5 faculty members or more who are shown to be working in colleges
other than this college. It must be noted that we have identified a
total of 224 colleges who have such repeat fulltime faculty. The
complete list of such colleges is enclosed in Annexure 6.
17. Our data finds that out of the total Engineering colleges of 480
in Tamilnadu, duplication of faculty members have been found in
224 colleges. This shows that this malpractice, fraud, conspiracy and
cheating of the colleges in collusion with the Centre for Affiliation is
happening in nearly 47 % of the colleges affiliated to Anna University.
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Table-3: Colleges who have more than 5 repeat faculty members
S.N No of
o Repeat
College Name Faculty
1 Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering and
Technology-Chengalpattu 34
2 T J Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu 33
3 Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology-
Kancheepuram 27
4 Sri Venkateswaraa College of Technology-Kancheepuram 23
5 Meenakshi College of Engineering-Chennai 21
6 Apollo Engineering College-Kancheepuram 17
7 A V S Engineering College-Salem 16
8 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and
Technology-Thiruvallur 16
9 Satyam College of Engineering and Technology-
Kanyakumari 15
10 Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering-
Thiruvannamalai 14
11 Renganayagi Varatharaj College of Engineering-
Virudhunagar 14
12 Shivani Engineering College-Tiruchirappalli 14
13 ARM College of Engineering and Technology-
Kancheepuram 13
14 Indira Institute of Engineering and Technology-
Thiruvallur 13
15 Shree Venkateshwara HiTech Engineering College-Erode 13
16 Angel College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruppur 12
17 Rathinam Technical Campus (Autonomous)-Coimbatore 12
18 Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering (CBE)-
Coimbatore 11
19 Mohamed Sathak A J College of Engineering-
Chengalpattu 11
20 SBM College of Engineering and Technology-Dindigul 11
21 SMK Fomra Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu 11
22 PERI Institute of Technology-Chengalpattu 10
23 Jayamatha Engineering College-Kanyakumari 10
24 Selvam College of Technology-Namakkal 10
25 Sri Krishna Institute of Technology-Kancheepuram 10
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26 Studyworld College of Engineering-Coimbatore 10
27 Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering College-
Namakkal 9
28 Indra Ganesan College of Engineering-Tiruchirappalli 9
29 J C T College of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore 9
30 P G P College of Engineering and Technology-Namakkal 9
31 Thangavelu Engineering College-Chengalpattu 9
32 A R J College of Engineering and Technology-Tiruvarur 9
33 S S M College of Engineering-Namakkal 9
34 Sapthagiri College of Engineering-Dharmapuri 9
35 Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology-
Thiruvallur 9
36 Paavai Engineering College (Autonomous)-Namakkal 8
37 Park College of Engineering and Technology-Coimbatore 8
38 Agni College of Technology-Chengalpattu 8
39 Arjun College of Technology-Coimbatore 8
40 G K M College of Engineering and Technology-
Chengalpattu 8
41 Madha Engineering College-Kancheepuram 8
42 Mohamed Sathak Engineering College-Ramanathapuram 8
43 Rrase College of Engineering-Kancheepuram 8
44 Sri Krishna College of Engineering-Ranipet 8
45 Sri Shanmugha College of Engineering and Technology-
Salem 8
46 Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College
(Autonomous)-Perambalur 7
47 Priyadarshini Engineering College-Tirupathur 7
48 Adithya Institute of Technology-Coimbatore 7
49 Jei Mathaajee College of Engineering-Kancheepuram 7
50 K S K College of Engineering and Technology-Thanjavur 7
51 Oxford Engineering College-Tiruchirappalli 6
52 A K T Memorial College of Engineering and Technology-
kallakurichi 6
53 Chendu College of Engineering and Technology-
Chengalpattu 6
54 Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and
Technology-Chengalpattu 6
55 Kathir College of Engineering-Coimbatore 6
56 M E T Engineering College-Kanyakumari 6
57 Suguna College of Engineering-Coimbatore 6
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58 Bharathiyar Institute of Engineering for Women-Salem 5
59 Paavai College of Engineering-Namakkal 5
60 Sasurie College of Engineering-Tiruppur 5
61 Sir Issac Newton College of Engineering and Technology-
Nagappattinam 5
62 Christ The King Engineering College-Coimbatore 5
63 Maria College of Engineering and Technology-
Kanyakumari 5
64 Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology-
Coimbatore 5
65 Prathyusha Engineering College (Autonomous)-
Thiruvallur 5
66 Sri Jayaram Institute of Engineering and Technology-
Thiruvallur 5
67 Sri Krishna Engineering College-Kancheepuram 5
18. Role of AICTE: There are a number of guidelines in the AICTE

norms that warrant availability of faculty members for granting
approval to technical institutions. Looking at the number of
instances of breach by 224 colleges, it raises serious questions on
the role of AICTE as well.
19. AICTE as per its Guidelines for AICTE approval and verification
from Approval Handbook 2023-24 clearly needs to physically visit
each and every college before providing accreditation and approval
for Engineering colleges for technical education. Also, AICTE
randomly visits 5% of the colleges each year for verification of faculty
members and infrastructure during renewal. However, it is clear that
AICTE has also not found this massive malpractice, fraud and
cheating taking place across various colleges. This shows that
members of AICTE who have been directly responsible for providing
such renewals also need to be probed for their involvement in the
scam.
20. There are about 13,861 faculty members whose AICTE Unique
ID is not available in the CAI website. Genuineness of those faculty
members need to be checked as there could be cases of violation in
their appointment as well. Even in the cases where IDs are present,
there does not seem to be a consistent format in the IDs; the IDs are
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ranging from 4 to 12 digits, some are prefixed with 1 followed by
hyphen, some are suffixed with the word ‘Degree’. While the IDs of
over 30,000 faculty members are updated, it is raising huge
suspicion on why over 13,000 faculty member IDs’ are not available
and some random dummy numbers are updated against them; and
also why the IDs of the rest of the members are not largely consistent
in format as well.
21. Parents trust AICTE and affiliation to Anna University and
admit their wards to these colleges based on the trust they have in
these institutions. Despite spending huge money as college fees and
4 years in college, students are deprived of quality education due to
lack of qualified faculties in many of these colleges. Such students
for no fault of them turn out unemployable by the Industry and end
up doing other jobs that are not related to Engineering.
22. Apart from the above, it is also common knowledge that many
colleges are also paying one time amounts to qualified people to
appear before the inspection committee on the date of inspection
alone to showcase as though they have enough faculties. Therefore,
even the non duplicate faculty members need to be properly
scrutinized to check whether they actually work in the college or not.
23. Therefore, it is extremely important that this complaint is taken
seriously and a proper and fair investigation takes place. It is also
important that the Chief Minister, Governor, AICTE, Syndicate
members of Anna University, public servants of Anna University,
Colleges and faculty members to understand that such scams play
with the lives of innocent students of Tamilnadu who on one side pay
hefty fees to join such colleges and on the other side have to bear the
brunt of poor quality Education due to such scams. The collusion
and conspiracy of various people mentioned in the above complaint
including the public servants of Anna University cannot and should
not go unpunished and it is extremely important for accountability
to be fixed.
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24. Therefore, we Request that
a. An investigation into the fraud, malpractice and scam against
those who have wilfully contributed to it takes place
immediately. The investigation has to cover the role of the
following people
i. The members of the Inspection Committee and the
Standing Committee of the Anna University who failed to
do their scrutiny right
ii. The Vice-Chancellor who has granted the affiliation to the
fraudulent colleges
iii. The members of the Expert Visit Committee of the AICTE
who have not performed periodic monitoring of
compliance to AICTE norms by the technical institutions,
and any of those who wilfully ignored the violations and
provided approval to the colleges for technical education
iv. The engineering colleges who have enlisted faculty
members who are not full timers of their respective
colleges to get affiliation and approval
v. The faculty members who are parties to this collusion
and fraud, by appearing in person in all such colleges
during the verification process while granting approval to
affiliation.
vi. Any middlemen involved in this process.
vii. Other public servants who are involved in the process of
decision making.
b. The Affiliation of the colleges involved in this fraud should be
cancelled as per section 7.9 of CAI Statutes and Regulations
2004 (Amended in 2007)
c. Faculty members involved should be debarred from working in
any AICTE accredited/ Anna University affiliated colleges.
d. Immediate corrective measures to ensure that this massive
fraud affecting ordinary students does not continue from this
year.
e. Apart from criminal action, departmental action also should be
initiated against all public servants involved in the scam.
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List of Enclosures
Annexure Description Page Number

Number
1 Faculty members and the list of many colleges 1 - 27

that each of them are shown to be working
2 Proof for 10 faculties who are shown to be full 1 -249
time faculty members in many colleges
(Annexure 2A, Annexure 2B & Annexure 2C)
3 Letter of Director regarding affiliation of colleges 1 -2
for 2023-24
4 RTIinformation regarding inspection date of 1 - 24
colleges
5 Evidence of role of inspection team wherein 1-66
same faculty is shown in 2 different colleges
and approved by inspection team
6 Collegewise, number of faculties in each college 1-5
whoare present in other colleges as well
Sincerely
Radhakrishnan.M
Arappor Iyakkam
Ph: 9962742188
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Subject: Complaint against Malpractice in Anna University Affiliation for

1. Arappor Iyakkam is an organization working towards Transparency

2. This complaint is to bring to your attention, the malpractice in the

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5. Anna University’s Center for affiliation of Institutions also called as

DR. K. MURALIBABU - DOB : 05/Jun/80 11

MR. M. ARANGARAJAN - DOB : 07/Jun/81 10

DR. S. VENKATESAN - DOB : 21/Jan/76 10

DR. S. VASANTHA SWAMINATHAN - DOB : 10/Jul/81 10

DR. Y. PRAKASH - DOB : 29/Nov/72 9

MR. N. KASILINGAM - DOB : 26/May/83 8

DR. S. KANNAN - DOB : 25/Jul/77 8

DR. S. HARIHARASUDHAN - DOB : 16/Apr/79 8

DR. M. SELVAM - DOB : 16/Oct/69 8

DR. M. GOWRI - DOB : 01/Oct/78 6

MR. P. MARIMUTHU - DOB : 15/Jul/88 7

DR. Y. RAVIKUMAR - DOB : 02/Jun/84 6

MR. M. MANIVANNAN - DOB : 02/Jun/84 6

DR. S. SINGSLY JINO - DOB : 07/Oct/85 6

MR. M. RAJU - DOB : 03/Jun/85 6

DR. V. GAJENDRA KUMAR - DOB : 11/Jan/78 6

DR. V. PRIYA - DOB : 14/May/84 6

DR. J. RAJPRASAD - DOB : 16/Dec/79 6

DR. R. KABILAN - DOB : 19/Jun/74 6

DR. V. VENUGOPAL - DOB : 20/Jun/74 6

MR. S. SUNDER RAJAN - DOB : 20/Mar/87 6

DR. K. JEYAKUMAR - DOB : 25/Jan/73 6

DR. R. KABILAN - DOB - 19/Jun/74 6

MR. S. SRIDHAR - DOB : 04/Jun/90 5

DR. R. BABU - DOB : 08/Jun/79 5

MR. S. THIRUPATHI - DOB : 09/May/92 5

DR. J. RAMAKRISHNAN - DOB : 10/Jul/90 5

DR. K. RAMESH - DOB : 10/Jun/66 5

MR. P. RAJARAJACHOZHAN - DOB : 12/Jul/91 5

MR. S. NANDHAKUMAR - DOB : 21/Jul/91 5

DR. S. BALU - DOB : 27/Jun/81 5

DR. K. VENKATARAMANA - DOB : 28/Mar/85 5

DR. V. CHANDRASEKAR - DOB : 02/Apr/86 5

2. The entire list of all Professors/ Assistant Professors/ Associate

3. It is only possible for 1 person to work as a full time faculty member

5. Annexure 2 shows the evidence of Dr Marisamy and 9 other

8. Role of Anna University’s Center for Affiliation of Institutions

9. Accordingly, the then Director of Centre for Affiliation of Institutions

07/Jul/85- 05.06.202 Annai Mathammal Sheela Engineering

SRM Madurai College for Engineering and

10/May/92- 02.06.202 Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and

18. Role of AICTE: There are a number of guidelines in the AICTE

Annexure Description Page Number

1 Faculty members and the list of many colleges 1 - 27

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