nagpur the nagpur university on friday stopped admissions to 338 affiliated colleges working without even a single fulltime teacher nu also recommended disaffiliation of 161 courses in various colleges where the number of students was less than 50 of the sanctioned capacity the move would have little impact on the admissions as over one lakh seats remained vacant last year across all faculties although there was mad rush for bba and bca courses there was poor response to other courses thousands of seats remained vacant last year even in the professional courses like engineering and pharmacy a notice published in various newspapers by nu board of college and university development director arvind chaudhary warned students and parents not to take admissions to these colleges for the 201314 academic year and if they do so the university will not be responsible for their fate nu also warned the college managements not to admit students till they comply with the stipulated norms and face consequences if they go ahead though nu notice mentioned having uploaded details of these 338 colleges on its website the same did not reflect on the website till late evening we have acted as per the high court orders and unless these colleges make amends we will not allow them to admit students chaudhary confirmed to toi citing list of 338 colleges without fulltime teachers submitted by nu to the court justice arun chaudhari had observed on may 3 that if the position holds good even today admissions of students in those colleges shall be subject to the further orders of this court and also at the risk and cost of vc provc and registrar the list includes colleges being run by some of the renowned education groups of the city and region such as meghe raisoni pandav agnihotri priyadarshini joshi mulak and waghaye patil among others these colleges are controlled by mp datta meghe mla sevak waghaye former mlc jainuddin zaveri and ncps uday tekade in fact many engineering architecture and management colleges are also included in the list where admissions have been stopped many colleges also belonged to nus statutory members like purushottam thote who is on the universitys senate nu has 827 affiliated colleges the highest among all universities in state and a majority of them are working without principals lecturers and without adequate infrastructure and facilities recently nu cleared proposals of 51 new colleges