ANNA UNIVERSITY titer: ts: °00: 235 roe SARDAR PATEL ROAD, CHENNAI - 600025 Fax: t91 44.2098 1908 E-mail: registrar@annauniv.edu Lr.No.261 / CAI / AU / 2020 13.05.2020 To All the Chairmen / Principals of Affiliated Institutions Anna University Chennai — 600 025. Sir / Madam, Sub: Affiliated Colleges — Grant of Provisional Affiliation to Courses - Informed - Reg Ref: AICTE's Revised Calendar of Activities Due to the spread of Coronavirus (COVID- 19), lockdown throughout the nation, AICTE revised the calendar of activities for the academic year 2020-21 Grant of affiliation by the University to the colleges is extended upto 30.06.2020. Hence, the Affiliated Colleges of Anna University are requested to submit an attested copy of the AICTE / COA / DGS approval to the University immediately after it is issued. Provisional affiliation will be granted to the eligible courses based on the ‘Apex body approval granted to the Courses. In the mid of June, University will send an appropriate mail to the individual institutions. After the start of the academic activities, University will send inspection committee to verify the data provided to the University. Encl.: AICTE revised calendar of activities CA cK ™ REGISTRAR REGISTRAR de, | "ANNA UNIVERSITY 3 oF (CHEMNAL-600 025All India Council for Technical Education Nelson Mandela Marg, VasantKunj, New Delhi-110070 & Action being taken by the Council for issuing EoA 2020-21 for the Institutions eee Dear Principal / Director, This is in continuation to AICTE’s earlier communication wherein it was informed that AICTE shall be informing all institutions about a revised calendar of activities for AY 2020-21 in the wake of COVID-2019 pandemic. AICTE invited application for grant of approval for the academic year 2020- 2021 in February 2020 as per the Hon'ble Supreme Court interim Order dated 31.01.2020. The last date for submitting the online application was 28.02.2020 for new institutions and 05.03.2020 for the existing institutions. The approval process by AICTE requires scrutiny for verification of documents/ inspection by Expert Visit Committee/ compliance of deficiencies verified by Standing Hearing Committee/ Standing Appellate Committee, as applicable, as specified in the Approval Process Handbook (APH). However, due to the spread of Coronavirus (COVID- 19), lockdown. throughout the nation, the process of approval could not be completed within the timeline as specified in the APH. Considering the exigency and extra ordinary situation in this particular facts and circumstances, the Executive Committee in its 133 Emergent meeting held on 27.04.2020 has approved the following calendar for the approval related activities for academic year 2020-21: Description Schedule as Per APH | Modified Schedule 2020-21 for AY 2020 Last date to grant approval to]30 April of the | 15% June 2020 Technical Institution Calendar Year Grant of affiliation by|15% May of the|30June 2020 University/ Board Calendar Year Completion of First round of [On or before 30% June|On or before counselling/ admission for] ofthe Calendar Year | August 2020 allotment of seatsAll India Council for Technical Education ‘if Nelson Mandela Marg, VasantKunj, New Delhi-110070 oS me Completion of Second round of counselling/ admission for allotment of seats On or before 10" July of the Calendar Year On or before 25% | August 2020 Last date upto which students can be admitted against vacancies 15% August of the Calendar Year 31* August of the Calendar Year Commencement of classes for existing students of technical courses except PGDM/PGCM 1 August 2020 Commencement of the academic session and the teaching process including Lateral Entry to Second Year Courses for newly admitted students 1* August of the Calendar Year 15 September 2020 Technical Institutions conducting PGDM/PGCM Courses shall not initiate the admission before 1 April of the Calendar Year 1st April 2020 PGDM/ PGCM Courses ‘Commencement of classes for _ 1 July 2020 existing students PGDM/PGCM Last date for cancellation of 30% June of the | 25% July 2020 seats of PGDM/PGCM with full | Calendar year refund - [Admission ending date of | 30" June every year 315° July 2020 The academic session for the PGDM/ PGCM Courses for newly admitted students 15 July of the Current Calendar Year to 30% June of the next Calendar Year 1 August 2020 to 31% July 2021 |Last date upto which students can be admitted in Open and Distance Learning Courses 15% August and 15% February of the Calendar Year for the July and January Session respectivel T5% August 2020 and|| 15 February 2021All India Council for Technical Education er Nelson Mandela Marg, VasantKunj, New Delhi-110070 aS AICTE has also appealed to Hon'ble Supreme Court of India to extend the date for grant of approval upto 15 June 2020, with proportionate modification in the Academic Calendar. The approval related activities for academic year 2020-21 shall be carried out through online. The Institutions applied for EoA without any changes vis-a-vis last year approval, based on the self-disclosure have been approved by the Executive Committee and such Institutions may download the EoA letter from the AICTE web portal from 30% April 2020, after uploading the student enrollment details. On receipt of the direction from the Apex Court, AICTE shall take necessary steps in granting approvals to the rest of the applications from the existing Institutions and for the establishment of New Institutions, using online meeting platforms for the conduct of Scrutiny/ EVC through Microsoft Team. Accordingly, all the Institutions are instructed to install Microsoft Teams Software and get familiarize with the same, so that wherever, the Institutions are to be involved in sharing their documents for online Scrutiny Committee, the documents verification can be done effectively. (Prof. Rajive Kumar) Member Secretary To: 1. All AICTE approved Institutions 2. All Applicants for the establishment of new institutions