Council of Architecture Complaints & Reviews

Respected sir,
We are the students of rvs kvk school of architecture from trichy, we are suffering for proper education because we are still not getting a basic education for us. Our architecture department does not contain any qualified staffs as per norms of council.. Our principal mr. Jegan palanichamy is not eligible for his post because he is not eighteen years experience out of which - minimum eight years as associate professor. Or twenty years practice experience out of which - ten years teaching experience as visiting faculty. (Relaxation up to three years in teaching experience may be given to candidates having m. Arch. Degree (Or equivalent) and ph. D.in architecture from university recognised by ugc. Or other competent authority) desirable (1. Five years experience as professor. 2. Experience in administration at responsible position.) actually he completed his m. Arch before 3years back... We still don’t know who is a principal or hod or dean of our college. The person who is in a principal position now, he was working as a assistant professor three years back. Within a year he promoted as a director of the same college. How it could be possible?.
Then our college professor mr. Krishanth also not eligible for his post, (He is a first class bachelor’s degree in architecture, but not m. Arch graduate and ph. D.in architecture). And he is not (Thirteen years experience out of which – minimum five years teaching experience as associate professor or thirteen years practice experience out of which - five years teaching experience as visiting faculty). (Relaxation up to three years in teaching experience may be given to candidates having m. Arch. Degree (Or equivalent) and ph. D.in architecture from university recognized by ugc or other competent authority). But they both have passed out their b. Arch in the year 2004. They both are not eligible for their own posts as per the norms of the council of architecture…they are not having sufficient qualification to be professors of architecture. There are some rules to be design chairman.. But we don’t have any staf[censored]nder this post…totally there are 6 professors in our whole department including admin and librarian. Only 4 are handling design among them.. But there are some qualifications to handle the design as per the norms. (Design chair) each institution may have one position per intake of 40on this chair. Bachelor’s degree in architecture or equivalent. Twenty years of experience with commendable and acknowledged work/experience in practice/teaching. But we don’t have any chair person for design. But we are losing our educations. There is no theory classes properly. Our principal used to handle theory papers for each batch. But he wont complete the single unit... He used to give remaining units as assignments. But there is no use of doing assignments.. Whatever he gives, all are worthless. There are 4 guides for final year students to handle the thesis. Is that possible?. Totally 36 students are there in final year. Final year are suffering a lot due to less time for their thesis. If we raise any questions at staffs, they are reducing our internal marks or else not allowing to attend viva. Last time they reduced our internal marks very badly.. Its done with full of own vengeance at students.. Its not like a college.. We are all feeling like being in a hell. Every student has came out from the village or interior sides. We are wasting our money. Day by day we are losing ourselves. Our lifes are spoiling due to the lack of professors. We need atleast 10 experienced staffs with proper qualification. We are getting tired of complaining again and again about the same problem for better solutions from past five years. Unfortunately we haven’t get any positive solution or action from the council. Every year two persons used to come for inspections from the council.. Our professors arranged some persons to act like a faculty. They used to show the fake report and signature of the faculties. We used to tell about our problems to the council persons. After the meeting gets over nothing won’t happen. There is no use of complaining about our problems. We are at the edge the knife. Please save us from the critical situations. Please do some help to coming out from the kind of problems. Our professors are scolding us with bad rubbish words in tamil (# etc) its very horrible to tolerate this. We keep adjusting or compromising ourselves. But why should we? We are paying money. So we need some proper education from the qualified staff. Please change our principal and professor. They both are ruling the whole department without any qualifications. But experience doesn’t matter. Knowledge matters. Please change or dismiss our hod and professor. We need some eligible qualified faculty for our college. Please take some immediate action within a week. Please don’t cancel the license of our college. College is fine. Instead of that change the hod. Its good enough for us. If you have any queries or doubt above the given information, enquire the students individually. Looking forward for your reply..

I am student of architecture in bharath school of architecture, chennai. I would like to bring forward certain concern regarding the falling standards of the college. We are approximately 130 students in number (Excluding the intern students). We have very less faculty (3 staffs-freshers and 2 visiting staffs and one hod) moreover new to teaching. Even, the hod was prevuiously working as asst professor for the past 2 years and due to no intake of staffs, she was appointed as hod. We don't have any software, nor cad computers. The college management doesn't support us nor faculty in any means. Computer lab has only 10 systems in working condition that too not updated. None of the softwares are installed. No workshops, semainars nor site visits. None of the academic works are being carried out.
No classes are being conducted, but in results alone, they are giving very less marks. We, students are writing our exams on our own. No infrastructure at all. Only 3 classrooms for all the 5 years and 1 computer lab that too without fan and ac.
A blackmark is given for the students who are complaining about the department condition. Even sometimes, arrears are given ion the sem exams for those marked students. Very bad attitude shown by the department.
We request you to take necessary actions against the department and the staffs and make our career safe.
Thankyou

Dear sirs,

I have taken admission in department of architecture for my daughter saumya raj, through acpc at ramanbhakta university, bardoli. I paid full fees and mean while, within a week we got admission in apied, vidhya nagar which is very closed to our home town vadodara.

At the time of admission in collage management told us that they will refund full amount if we cancel the admission within 15 days.

Now when we are asking for refund to collage administration they says, as per the acpc rule you are not eligible for the refund.

Can you please guide us what is the acpc rule and why i cant get my fees back?

Look forward to your favorable reply.

Thanks and regards,

Swarup raj

Name of student : saumya raj
Department : architecture
Paid fees : 62, 750 on 28th august 2017

Received refund only 3, 000 rs.

I graduated this year in 2017, since last 3 months i am finding a job, but not a single architecture firm has job openings, and after giving interviews there's just a rejection, its very frustrating and 80% of my collegues who graduated are unemployed and jobless and trying to find a job but not geting one. Its very depressing for us, we study hard for 5 years but we do not get any placement from college. We have to search for a job on our own. Also the pay for freshers is way less than mentioned in council of architecture... Its really a depressing situation, and i want to really start working. Many of my friends including me are frustated we pay so much around lakhs to do b. Arch just to face the harsh reality that theres no scope and money in architecture and no jobs for fresher architects. Please kindly take a note of this and help us find jobs.

Respected, sir/madam

College name: vadodara design academy

Admission in: 2016

In between college started on august 16, on behalf of taking second semester. Exam they have taken first semester exam on 6-7 june. The time period in between is about 1st year and also we are still awaiting for our result, 2nd semester exam schedule is also in disorder. They had already taken the free of 3rd semester. The 3rd semester they have started but didn't taken of 2nd semester exam and 1st semester result.

We hope for getting your reply as soon as possible.

Thank you

I had written nata exam on june 13th 2016 i got 116 marks out of 200 would this marks be considered for the results of nata for the year 2017-18. D oes they consider even the 12th/2nd puc marks. Should i write it again in 2017 or my 2016 would be considered instead? Please reply for my request and please send me your decision regarding the above mentioned subject

Dear sir,
I am payal chafle i had fill application form of nata and completed all the three steps of form including payment rs.1250 but now i am not getting my admit card. As i lost my application number i tried to get my application number on 'forget application no?' but it shows that my 'application no. Not found." so i want my application no. Immediately or refund of my money kindly.
Thank you!

Dear Sir, I attempted to pay fee for form on 13.06.2015 both attempt were unsuccessful and money was deducted from my account. On inquiring the bank, I was informed that the payment was successful and the money was payed to merchant. The details as received from bank is as follows Merchant Transaction ID TPSL ID Bank Ref ID Amount Merchant Name payment_date Status Transaction Date TX59MXCRPG9HYH [protected] [protected] 1260.69 Council of Architecture 15-Jun-2015 SUCCESS 13-Jun-2015 TXNT46NADTXXSK [protected] [protected] 1260.69 Council of Architecture 15-Jun-2015 SUCCESS 13-Jun-2015 On repeatedly getting the message o[censored]nsuccessful transaction, I made 3 attempts of payment and in last attempt I succeeded but the money paid for previous 2 transactions have not been refunded which is because to your system failure. Please refund the money because of your system error. Thanking you for the same.

Regarding degree of bachelors in architecture

We are the architecture graduates from Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan). Almost 7 years have passed since our graduation but till date we have not been able to register ourselves as an Architect by the Council of Architecture.
As per Architect’s Act-1972, after getting a bachelor’s degree in architecture, one has to apply to the Council of Architecture (COA) to register himself. But unfortunately, COA has rejected our applications stating our qualification is not recognized. I am attaching here a letter of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) dated 5th September 2007 in which MHRD has clarified that the degree of Jai Narain Vyas University is duly recognized and the COA does not have any discretion to refuse the registration. I am also attaching herewith a letter from Technical Education Department, Government of Rajasthan dated 08.04.2008 in which it is stated that the degree of Jai Narain Vyas University should not be derecognized & the registration to the pass outs should not be denied by the COA.
To give you a brief idea, the department of architecture was commenced by Jai Narain Vyas University in 1998. Every year there had been regular admissions with the intake of 30 students with permission of COA & AICTE. Till date hundreds of students have passed out from this department. The futures of all those students have come to a stack because of injustice of COA. In the absence of registration, we are not eligible for any government jobs nor can we apply for higher education in India and abroad.
You are therefore requested to look into the matter and do justice to us. We would be grateful if you can give us an appointment to brief you about all the facts and summary of the whole story.
Thanks & Regards,
Graduates of Architecture,
Faculty of Engineering & Architecture
M.B.M Engineering College
Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur (Raj.)

Contact Persons:
Manoj Singh (2004 Batch)
Mobile No. – [protected]
Email – [protected]@yahoo.co.in

Vibhor Mehra (2007 Batch)
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Email – vibhore.[protected]@gmail.

i send a registerd post with acknowledgement(for renewal of my certificate of registration to ,

THE REGISTRAR,
COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURE,
INDIA HABITAT CENTRE,
CORE 6A, FIRST FLOOR,
LODHI ROAD,
NEW DELHI – 110003, INDIA
TEL [protected]
91 – 11 – 24648415
on march 3rd 2010 from pattom palace post office (695004)
RLADA RL[protected] IN
FROM COUNTER NO. 1, OP CODE : CPA

TO :RGR CNL OF ARCTRE,NEWDELHI.

till now i haven,t received the acknowledgement for the same.
I would like to know whether they received the letter or not?