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| Most colleges run by adhoc staff from school buildings | | Poor state of higher education in periphery | |  Early Times Report
rajouri, July 8: The grim state of affairs in the department of Higher Education especially in the peripheral districts can be gauged from the fact that out of six Government Degree Colleges operating in Rajouri district, only two including Post Graduate College at Rajouri were operating from their own buildings and the remaining colleges are being run in school buildings with 4-6 rooms since their inception till last Academic Session.
Not only these colleges have inadequate infrastructure but most of the colleges barring PG college are being run by teachers hired on Academic arrangements and not by the Assistant/Associate professors as per UGC guidelines.
From current academic session Nowshera College has been shifted to its new complex completed after 6 years with a cost of about Rs 12 crores.
Out of 17 sanctioned posts of Associate/Assistant professors 14 posts are lying vacant in this college since its inception and the students suffered a lot during these years as the required teachers in many subjects were also not available for engagements on 'Academic Arrangement'.
"Despite sanction of science subjects by the Higher Education Department, the science subjects couldn't be introduced in this college till last academic session due to inadequate infrastructure and laboratories. Now from current session onwards students can take admissions in medical & non-medical subjects" said Principal of the College.
Not only in this college (Nowshera , the science subjects couldn't be introduced at Budhal and Sunderbani also in the absence of required infrastructure and the students who wanted to adopt medical or non-medical subjects either abandoned their ideas due to poor financial conditions or they had taken admissions either at Rajouri or at other places in the State.
During 2015-16 sessions about 310 students were enrolled in Nowshera Degree college in Arts subjects and the college was being run in a middle school building with an accommodation of four rooms and a hall.
Prof Joginder Singh in-charge admissions said that "The college has now been shifted to new building and from 2016-17 academic session, 80 seats each have been kept for medical and non-medical streams besides about 400 seats in Arts stream" said Prof Joginder Singh.
He hoped that all the 80 seats for medical stream will be fulfilled while more than 75% students are expected to adopt non-medical subject combinations.
Out of sanctioned 18 posts of Associate/Assistant Professors , the college has only three permanent posts (Political Science, Education & Physics) while all other posts are lying vacant.
"J&K Public Service Commission has declared the lists of Associates /Assistant professors and it is hoped from current session most of the sanctioned posts will be filled and students will not suffer any more" said Principal, BB Sharma. |
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