Team Herald
PANJIM: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Saturday issued a public notice stating that a circular issued on AICTE letterhead regarding scrapping of 75 percent attendance rule was fake.
“Attention is drawn to a fake circular issued on AICTE letterhead regarding scrapping of 75% attendance rule and introducing vocational projects which has gone viral on social media/network. The circular is misleading and mischievous,” said the notice issued through the AICTE Member Secretary.
“We would like to confirm that AICTE has not issued any circular in this regard. AICTE is lodging a complaint against the fake circular in the cyber crime cell of Delhi Police. You are therefore requested to ignore the aforesaid circular,” the notice adds.
On Thursday, a circular on AICTE letterhead, which went viral on social media, had claimed that the Ministry of Human Resource Development had scrapped the 75 percent attendance rule in BE/BTech courses. The fake circular addressed to engineering colleges stated: “To address the declining employability of over 12 lakh engineering graduates, the MHRD has decided to scrap the 75 percent attendance rule.”
w.e.f January 18 due to inability of updating the syllabus on new technologies and advancements regularly.”
