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2,955 teaching posts in aided colleges vacant

MANGALORE: “Of the 9,636 sanctioned teaching posts in 299 government-aided degree colleges in the State, 2,955 are vacant. If the Government does not fill up these posts, it will be difficult to achieve quality in higher education during the Eleventh Five Year Plan period,” Y. Bhaskar Shetty, president of the Federation of Degree College Principals’ Associations in Karnataka, has said.

Speaking at the conference on “UGC Eleventh Plan and National Assessment and Accreditation Council re-assessment”, here on Saturday, he said that of the 6,521 government approved non-teaching posts in the government-aided private colleges, 2,703 posts were vacant. More than half the number of aided colleges had no principals. Only in-charge principals were managing these colleges. About 50 per cent of students in the State were in aided colleges, he said and added that in such a situation it might not be possible to improve the quality of higher education.

He said that the aided colleges in the State had 2,10,371 students, government colleges 1,20,188 students, and un-aided private colleges 1,13,014 students.

“Unless the State Government attends to the problems of degree colleges, it will be difficult to develop the colleges on the lines of Eleventh Plan guidelines of University Grants Commission (UGC),” he said.

Prof. Shetty said that the Government stopped the recruitment process of teachers and non-teaching staff in aided colleges in 1987. After a prolonged discussion, the Government issued an order on November 13, 2006 to fill-up the approved vacant posts in aided degree colleges. But the Government had not filled up those posts, barring a few in Dharwad region.

The Government stopped the appointment of grade I principals in aided colleges in March 2001.

It issued an order on January 7, 2007 to fill-up the vacant posts of grade I principal. Soon after this, four persons moved the High Court seeking a direction that the Government should recruit only those who had Ph.D degree as principals. The High Court issued a stay on the GO. But on December 30, 2007, the High Court modified its order by stating that the stay applied only to the colleges mentioned by the petitioners.

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