ROHTAK: In a shocking revelation, around 16 colleges affiliated to Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, running bachelors and masters degree courses in education (BEd and MEd) have been found without any staff — teaching or administrative — and without any building.
According to university sources, during a surprise inspection, the university team could not trace the location of these colleges.
In fact, the university found that almost 57% of the BEd colleges are not fit to run the course and need to be disaffiliated due to poor faculty and infrastructure facilities.
About 298 BEd colleges are affiliated with MDU of which 173 have highly inadequate staff and infrastructure. Moreover, of these 173 colleges, 101 were found extremely poor in terms of basic requirement of staff and building.
The surprise inspection has brought out these facts which exposed the declining standards of education in Haryana. These colleges produce educators and trained teachers who are supposed to be pillars of primary and secondary education. But the state of affairs at these BEd colleges itself revealed the basic flaw in the present education system, sources said.
The varsity gives marks to each BEd college on a scale of 100 for having teaching and non-teaching staff (50%), building (25%) and laboratory/library (25%). The colleges must get 50% marks to run the courses and those below this mark would be put in C category and could face disaffiliation.
Varsity authorities were shocked to find that the 173 colleges were bracketed in C category as per the set criteria. The varsity then decided to zero in on worst colleges and prepared a list of 101 colleges, which get below 25% marks as per the criteria.
Vice-chancellor R P Hooda said that the varsity was in the process of serving show cause notices to all the 173 colleges which fall in C category. " These colleges would be given 21 days' time to fulfill the requisite norms regarding staff and infrastructure and submit a compliance report to the varsity. After this, we would start the process of disaffiliating the undeserving colleges".
The 298 colleges, spread over nine districts, are affiliated to MDU and have 35,000 seats of BEd. University sources said it was shocking that majority of colleges were allowed to run courses without adequate teaching staff and infrastructure. " In fact, with privatization of education, a number of small time politicians, contractors and all kinds of people with little concern for education set up colleges for purely commercial purposes. These people have the sole motive of earning money and also have links with higher-ups, which protect them even if they flout norms," they said.
The six colleges owned by Rohtak-based Joginder Dalal, who was facing criminal charges for ordering girl students wearing saris to perform "sheersasan yoga" were also in the C category, they said.
The varsity has initiated proceedings to disaffiliate all his colleges after he was found guilty of extorting money from students.
According to university sources, during a surprise inspection, the university team could not trace the location of these colleges.
In fact, the university found that almost 57% of the BEd colleges are not fit to run the course and need to be disaffiliated due to poor faculty and infrastructure facilities.
About 298 BEd colleges are affiliated with MDU of which 173 have highly inadequate staff and infrastructure. Moreover, of these 173 colleges, 101 were found extremely poor in terms of basic requirement of staff and building.
The surprise inspection has brought out these facts which exposed the declining standards of education in Haryana. These colleges produce educators and trained teachers who are supposed to be pillars of primary and secondary education. But the state of affairs at these BEd colleges itself revealed the basic flaw in the present education system, sources said.
The varsity gives marks to each BEd college on a scale of 100 for having teaching and non-teaching staff (50%), building (25%) and laboratory/library (25%). The colleges must get 50% marks to run the courses and those below this mark would be put in C category and could face disaffiliation.
Varsity authorities were shocked to find that the 173 colleges were bracketed in C category as per the set criteria. The varsity then decided to zero in on worst colleges and prepared a list of 101 colleges, which get below 25% marks as per the criteria.
Vice-chancellor R P Hooda said that the varsity was in the process of serving show cause notices to all the 173 colleges which fall in C category. " These colleges would be given 21 days' time to fulfill the requisite norms regarding staff and infrastructure and submit a compliance report to the varsity. After this, we would start the process of disaffiliating the undeserving colleges".
The 298 colleges, spread over nine districts, are affiliated to MDU and have 35,000 seats of BEd. University sources said it was shocking that majority of colleges were allowed to run courses without adequate teaching staff and infrastructure. " In fact, with privatization of education, a number of small time politicians, contractors and all kinds of people with little concern for education set up colleges for purely commercial purposes. These people have the sole motive of earning money and also have links with higher-ups, which protect them even if they flout norms," they said.
The six colleges owned by Rohtak-based Joginder Dalal, who was facing criminal charges for ordering girl students wearing saris to perform "sheersasan yoga" were also in the C category, they said.
The varsity has initiated proceedings to disaffiliate all his colleges after he was found guilty of extorting money from students.
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