pune the director of technical educations dte decision barring technical colleges that have conditional affiliation from universities from participating in the 201415 centralised admissions has caused concern among institutions in a letter to the regional joint directors on may 20 dte subhash mahajan has cited the october 21 2013 judgment of the aurangabad bench of the bombay high court directing that such institutions cannot be allowed to participate in centralized admissions this covers admissions to mbamms engineering management architecture and hotel management and catering technology courses all colleges have to submit an undertaking to dte by may 30 to declare their willingness to participate in the centralized admission process however now the joint directors have asked all technical institutions to ensure they have the respective universitys unconditional affiliation for the year 201415 when they furnish this declaration undertakings of institutions with conditional affiliation will not be accepted the joint directors have told college principals institutes are not convinced gajanan ekbote chairman of progress education society which runs a chain of institutions told toi the dtes move is based on wrong interpretation of the high courts order and needs to be reconsidered if the decision is implemented then several technical colleges which have conditional affiliation from universities will find themselves excluded from the centralized admissions this will also impact students from the reserved category as they wont get their fees reimbursement and such benefits ekbote has written a letter to the university of pune vicechancellor w n gade seeking a representation on the universitys behalf to the dte to reconsider the decision the maharashra universities act provisions empower the universitys academic council to grant affiliation conditional affiliations are only meant to ensure that the college concerned fulfills any shortcoming that is pointed out at the time of grant of such affiliation within a reasonable stipulated time he said on its part the dte appears to be in no mood to take any chance after the hc judgment the high court judgment is amply clear and we wont allow institutions with conditional affiliation to be part of the centralized admissions this year a senior official in the dte office said last october the three jalgaonbased institutions had filed six petitions in the aurangabad bench seeking the courts direction to the north maharashtra university to conduct inspection for grant of affiliation and to accept eligibility and examination forms of their students who were admitted earlier through the dtes centralized admission process the high court had then asked these institutions to explain why they participated in the admission process despite not being affiliated to the university the institutions then filed affidavits blaming the university grants commission ugc for causing confusion related to the affiliation process they cited the ugcs may 25 2013 letter asking all universities not to proceed with affiliation for any professional or technical college till further instruction as it was preparing fresh guidelines for the affiliation process the ugc eventually asked the universities on august 7 2013 to go ahead with