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| Banihal GDC faces acute shortage of staff | | | Danish Muzafar
Early Times Report
BANIHAL, Aug 30: The government degree college, Banihal, sanctioned during the regime of Ghulam Nabi Azad in 2008, is facing the acute shortage of staff as, at present, it has only three professors, including principal.
The shortage of professors has forced the students of BA Part I to allegedly cancel their admissions. They now want to take admissions in the valley colleges or in Jammu colleges. Some others are planning to pursue higher studies through distance mode.
The college has 220 students in Part I and 60 in Part III. The admissions in Part I were yet to start.
A female student of BA part I said that she was going for the cancellation of her admission as the college was without lectures and she is now thinking to take admission in some valley college.
The college has two professors; one of political science and the other of Urdu, besides the principal. The shortage of teaching staff has put at stake the future of hundreds of Banihal students.
The college is running from the two rooms of government higher secondary school, Banihal, and some rooms made by army under Operation Sadbavna.
The work on newly under construction building of the college is stopped from last one and half month due to some objections made by the local land owners regarding the balance of their compensation.
When contacted, in charge principal Mushtaq Ahmed said maximum collages of Jammu province were faced with the shortage of teaching staff. He also made a mention of some candidates who had moved court as regards the academic arrangements on contractual basis.
When asked about the under construction building of the college, he said the land owners had got the 83 pc of the amount of their lands and rest 17 pc was balance. He said that the issue was also raised in the recent board meeting. After the funds were released, the work would be taken up, he added.
The sub-contractor and sarpanch of Bankote, where this degree collage is under construction, said the work was stopped after the land owners raised certain objections.
He said that the 175 feet long foundation of college building was completed up to plinth level and the ground leveling and construction of link road up to college was also completed. He said that near about 71 lakh of land compensation was yet to be paid to the land owners.
He hoped that the work would restart within one week. The concerned AEE did not pick up the phone despite repeated calls. |
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