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More takers than seats in degree colleges

By S. Harpal Singh

ADILABAD, JULY 19 . A number of applicants for first-year degree courses in the five colleges in Adilabad town are likely to be dejected this year. The number of seats in these colleges is grossly inadequate and will not accommodate all those seeking admission. While no concrete estimates exist, this lack of seats in degree colleges contributes to the increasing number of students dropping out of studies after finishing Intermediate.

There are 20 Government and private Junior Colleges in and around the Adilabad district headquarters. These form the catchment of the strength in the two Government and three private degree colleges in Adilabad. The number of applicants every year hovers around 2,000, of which about 1,500 are usually students who have freshly passed out of Intermediate second year, and 500 are rejects.

The available seats in the five colleges are: 510 in the Government Degree College for Boys, 120 in the Government Degree College for Girls, 485 in the Nalanda Degree College, 180 in the Vidyarthi Degree College and 120 in the Goutami Degree College. This means the town is short of a little over 600 seats.

"We have written to the Kakatiya University for an increase in the number of seats. If it is granted, it will ease some of the pressure on us," said the principal of the Government Degree College for Boys (GDC-B), Mr. Keshav Rao.

This year, the GCD-B received 1,692 applications for first-year degree courses. Five hundred and ten seats are available, and 180 additional seats are expected soon. Moreover, of the required minimum of 35 lecturers, the GDC-B has just 16. Contract lecturers working in the remaining 19 posts were discontinued this year.

"The only way of arresting the number of dropouts after Intermediate is to sanction additional seats to those colleges that can afford the increase. We have repeatedly asked the University for additional seats, but have never got any," the Principal of Nalanda Degree College, K. Punna Rao, said.

Mr. Keshav Rao pointed to the growing demand for the scrapped Economics, Political Science and Public Administration combination, and suggested reviving it in his college.

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