Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 25 : The Jammu Students Morcha (JSM) flayed the University authorities for disobeyed the Governor (Chancellor Jammu University) order for Audit of the Directorate of Internal Quality Assurance Cell. Addressing media persons, Vikram Kumar President JSM said that Director Quality Assurance has been charging Quality Assurance Fund from each student (Rs. 135 per student), who took admission in Under Graduate, Post Graduate, Directorate of Distance Education, B.Ed. Med and even in any other private college of state. He further said that in-spite of charging huge fund every year from students; it was still unknown, where the fund has been used. According to official website of Director Quality Assurance, it has been maintained in the objectives and functions that the collected QA fund would be used to undertake, intervention strategies for encouraging self-evaluation, accountability, continual improvement in all the system procedure beside many other functions, but on ground level, the net result was nil. He further alleged that in the achievements and activities the department has shown that, the department has to conduct training and development for faculty, officers, non teaching staff of University and Principals and teachers of the affiliated colleges of the University but all turned into a farce. "Even the department has also written that the fund is supposed to used for placements, fellowships, career education fairs beside numerous other functions, but we want to ask the University authorities that how many placement drives have been conducted in languages departments including Dogri, Punjabi, Urdu, English and other Social Studies department", he questioned. He appealed Chancellor of Jammu University to intervene in the matter, so that truth would be ascertained. |