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Govt. bid to provide quality education

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CHANDIGARH, MAY 30. The Haryana Government has decided to introduce subject of environmental studies at undergraduate level in all the colleges in the State from the current academic session to create environmental awareness among the future generations.

A spokesman of the Higher Education Department said that the State Government had already sanctioned 47 posts of lecturers in environmental studies to be appointed on contract basis in Government Colleges.

The Government was making all out efforts to provide quality education to the students of rural colleges as well and all the vacant posts of lecturers were being filled. Interviews to fill 264 posts of lecturers in various subjects had recently been conducted by the Haryana Public Service Commission and new appointees would be posted in rural areas preferably. And 392 lecturers in various subjects were appointed during 2001-2003, he added.

The State Government had issued no objection certificates for opening 12 private colleges during academic year 2004-05 to expand the network of higher education to the rural and remote areas. He added that during the academic session 2003-04, five no objection certificates were issued for opening of private colleges besides allowing 174 new job oriented courses/subjects to be introduced in Non-Government Colleges under self financing scheme to generate employment opportunities. Emphasis was being laid on computer education.

He further disclosed that the assessment and accreditation of all the colleges in the State had been made mandatory through the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore which would help to identify institutions that could be subsequently developed into centres of excellence such as Colleges of Commerce, Institutes of Home Science, Institutes of Applied Sciences and Institutes of Information and Technology as per the new education policy.

A Quality Assurance Cell had been established in the Directorate to help NAAC in achieving the target of assessment and accreditation in the case of affiliated colleges. It would also advise NAAC about the quality assurance activities to be taken up by the higher education institutions for achieving globally acceptable quality standard. It would also advise the State Government for initiating suitable measurement for ascertaining the maintenance of minimum standards in higher education in the institutions.

He said that the number of colleges in the State had increased from 45 in 1966 to 187 in 2003 which included 60 Government Colleges and 127 Private Colleges, out of which 96 were on grant-in-aid. The total number of students in the colleges had also increased from 30,109 in 1966 to 2,06,936 in 2003, he added.

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