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| 5-member committee to asses unauthorised study centres working | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 4: The State government has constituted a five-member committee to monitor and assess the functioning of all unauthorized institutions and study centres operating in Jammu and Kashmir. The government has decided to devise a mechanism for entrance test, for admission and for selection in government services also for future. Meanwhile, it has also decided to step up control strong rooms to declaring the results in stipulated time frame. In order to evolve the strategies and mechanism for monitoring of malpractices and functioning of unauthorised study institutions in the Jammu and Kashmir state of various professional nature courses like BCA, MCA, BBA, and MBA etc, a meeting of Registrars, Director Colleges, Controller of examinations and Dean Academic Affairs of various universities was convened in the committee hall of Civil Secretariat, Jammu last evening.
The Minister for Higher Education, Labour and Employment, Abdul Gani Malik chaired the meeting, while Minister of State for Higher Education, Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma, Commissioner Secretary, Higher Education, N.K. Verma, Special Secretary, Higher Education, Pervaiz Malik, Director Colleges Development Council, University of Jammu, Prof Rajiv Gupta alongwith Registrars, Controller of examinations and Dean Academic Affairs of various universities attended the meeting. During the meeting threadbare discussions were held with regard to malpractices and functioning of unauthorised study institutions in the Jammu & Kashmir state under their distance education programmes with the result that the students getting their degrees from these universities are invariably possessing high percentage of marks or grades as compared to the regular students of state universities and are better placed at the time of job interviews before Public Service Commission or Services Selection Recruitment Boards as a result of which they steal a march over the students of state universities.
Other issues which include restriction of admissions, starting of evening shifts in colleges, permission to run M. Ed courses, entrustment of subject-wise administration in colleges and demands of B. Ed colleges of Kashmir Division were also came under discussion during the meeting.
Speaking on occasion, Malik expressed his displeasure on these unauthorised institutions and study centres and said that all such unauthorised institutions and study centres which are functioning in the state and from where degrees are being sold should be closed forthwith and there should be only recognised institutions in the state so that the moral value of degrees obtained from recognised institutions by the hard working students fraternity may not hamper. Malik said that all such degree holders who have obtained their degrees from such unrecognised institutions are playing with the future of coming generation.
He further disclosed that sufficient infrastructure is available in the higher education sector which is being used only for one shift which results in an extreme pressure on this infrastructure during this one shift and benefits can be multiplied if it is put to use for 2nd shift as well. The existing faculty be rotated and made to work for such duration as also prescribed by the UGC, he added.
Malik said that a policy to be evolved for permission to run M. Ed courses in near future.
Demand of B. Ed colleges of Kashmir Division with regard to fee structure and other conditions of both the Universities also came under discussion during the meeting.
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