chennai the all india council for technical education aicte came under fire on thursday with the madras high court ticking off the central regulatory body for treating all good and bad educational institutions alike resulting in the harassment of those achieving excellence justice k k sasidharan passing orders on a writ petition filed by shanmuga polytechnic college an associate of thanjavurbased sastra university said there is no dispute that there are illequipped institutions offering various courses in engineering those institutions are still surviving with the help of authorities all institutions should not be painted with the very same brush an apex body like the aicte must be in a position to identify premier institutions and encourage them to give good technical education for an affordable fee similarly efforts should be made to close down makeshift engineering institutions which are a source of threat in the field of education the college filed the writ petition after the aicte refused to extend approval for an electronics engineering course the aicte said there were three major deficiencies fees reservation and admission police are not uploaded in the institutes website the institutes land was not contiguous and salaries are not paid as per aicte norms the institute however said no parent or student or state authority had raised their fingers against the institute with respect to information on its website as for the objections about the nature of the land it said it was a new reason invented by the aicte against the 29 year old institution due to extraneous reasons it also said the salary issue was pending before the supreme court justice sasidharan concurring with the submission that denial of permission was due to critical articles written by the administrators of the polytechnic said the failure on the part of the aicte to identify wellequipped institutions and its treatment of all institutions both good and average alike notwithstanding the excellent performance made by a relatively good institution run by a charitable society and part of sastra university to approach the court time and again holding that it was a fit case for a positive order to grant extension justice sasidharan directed the aicte to extend approval for the year 201314 before november 20