Private ITIs, whose applications for approval and affiliation are pending, have been permitted to grant conditional admission to students. The new procedure has defeated the very purpose of an earlier exercise undertaken by the State Government to regulate admissions to private ITIs. This was to check exploitation of unsuspecting students by managements of non-affiliated and non-approved ITIs.

When these students had taken admission to private ITIs last year, they had little idea that at least eight of the private ITIs were not approved. The private ITI managements admitted students far excess than their approved number of seats. The excess students were denied permission to appear for the examination. These students joined the agitation forcing the government to take measures to keep check on unscrupulous managements.

But their joy proved short-lived as the new norms give a free hand to ITI managements to admit students even if the application seeking approval and affiliation is pending with the government.