“Rather fail with honor than succeed
by fraud.” ―Sophocles
Most people in India don’t prefer to
pursue teaching as a career. They are averse to joining private engineering
colleges in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. There are many reasons
for this. The best talent goes to industry where they are compensated handsomely
with lots of pay and perks. They have opportunities to go abroad to lead a
luxurious life. They get all types of leaves. Above all, they have effective grievances
cell to redress their grievances through proper channel. However, in private
engineering colleges, it is totally reverse. These colleges don’t pay salaries
as per the talent of the faculty. They don’t pay salaries on time. They show on
records very high salary to comply with AICTE norms and the guidelines of their
affiliated universities. In fact, they pay less to faculty members in reality.
They take the differential salary by taking the signature of their employees on
the withdrawal forms. They don’t pay summer vacation salaries and also the last
month salary to the faculty when the latter leave the colleges. The managements
of these private colleges run as per their whims and fancies. They have feudal
mindset. Some of them are liquor barons and real estate agents who reinvented
as entrepreneurs. They talk about professionalism in public places and adopt
totally unethical and unprofessional practices within the college campus. There
is no effective redressal mechanism in private engineering colleges.
The managements of private engineering
colleges have access to top people in their respective affiliated universities.
They often invite the vice-chancellors, registrars, and deans to their college
anniversary functions and ‘graduation day’ ceremonies. The visiting dignitaries
are paid handsomely by way of honorarium. These dignitaries are intellectuals
and know what is really happening in these private engineering colleges but
they are helpless. Their hands are tied because the managements of private
engineering colleges have strong political connections. If required, they can
bribe police, use force or unlawful means to settle their scores and suppress
the irregularities raised by the faculty members.
It is time to cleanse the present
system in private engineering colleges to encourage the right talent and
passionate faculty to pursue their careers. The regulatory bodies like All India Council
for Technical Education (AICTE), Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University (JNTU)
and Osmania University (OU) and the affiliated universities must look into the
irregularities seriously and close down such unethical educational
institutions. These institutions don’t churn healthy citizens. Hence, the
government, regulatory bodies, media, intellectuals and nonprofits must take initiative
to check unethical practices in these private educational institutions to enable
the right talent to join private engineering colleges to impart quality
education to students, and to bring sanctity to education. Jai
Hind!
"When all is said and done,
teaching is what I try to do for a living." ―Jack Welch, CEO
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It is true that the best faculty don't join teaching profession due to lack of career opportunities and monetary aspects. Additionally, some of the owners of private colleges in Telangana and other states treat employees as their servants. they don't respect faculty as intellectuals. They treat them as puppets. They collect a huge money from students in the name of projects or seminars or training programs. They don't pay salaries to faculty on time. They also remove faculty by filing wrong cases. When faculty question them for not removing salaries, they use all kinds of threats to cow down them. Intellectuals are also divided due to their ego problems. Hence, these private owners who have close connection with local goondas use all kinds of tactics to trouble faculty. They break so many rules laid down by AICTE and their affiliated universities.
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