COA bars admission in 3 Punjab, 1 Haryana college

Fatehgarh Sahib, June 29 (UNI) Council of Architecture has barred three architecture colleges from Punjab and one of Haryana from admitting students for the academic session 2007-2008.

The COA, an autonomous statutory body of Government of India had directed all institutions imparting architectural education in the country to submit undertaking that their institution will not admit any student in the first year of five year Bachelor of Architecture (B Arch) degree course being imparted in their institutions, from the academic session 2007-2008, unless he/she had passed the National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA).

Three institutions from Punjab, Faculty of Physical Planning and Architecture, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; School of Architecture, GZSCET, Bathinda; Indo Global College of Architecture, Abhipur and one from Haryana- Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal have not submitted the required undertaking by the prescribed date (June 22,2007) and their sanctioned intake stands frozen for the academic session 2007-2008, according to Vinod Kumar, Registrar, COA.

Mr Kumar emphasised that the students who were not admitted through NATA in the current academic session would not be registered as 'Architects' under the Architects Act, 1972, even if they obtained the B Arch Degree.

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