“If a country is to be corruption free
and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key
societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and
the teacher.” ―A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
It is unfortunate to blog about the
irregularities and corruption in the private medical, MBA and engineering
educational institutions in the state of Telangana. Although the TRS government
in Telangana State conducted Task Forces to check irregularities and corruption
in these private educational institutions, there are lots of irregularities still going
on.
The managements of these private
colleges treat the principals of their educational institutions as puppets
without giving them due respect and powers. When the principals want to follow
the rules to protect the faculty and employees, they are fired by the owners of
private colleges. There are many cases where the principals and professors who
follow the rules are fired from these colleges on silly charges. At times, the private managements file wrong
charges against these principals and professors to get rid of them without
paying salaries. Worse, these private managements fill the senior positions and
principals before the JNTU, OU and AICTE inspections to comply with the
guidelines such as availability of PhD holders and the faculty members as per
the faculty and student ratio. Once inspections are completed, the senior
faculty members are fired without giving valid reasons. These managements are notorious
for not giving salaries to their employees, service certificates and last
salary drawn certificates when the latter leave their services. They also use
their security forces against their faculty members.
The owners of these private colleges show
to regulating bodies that they are paying salaries as per the AICTE guidelines
and transfer the salary to employees through bank and they take the signatures
of the employees for the differential payments. These transactions are clearly
evident through bank transactions. Any Income Tax department can make a note of
these irregularities. The bank employees associated with these colleges are
also aware of these manipulations by these private colleges. Nowadays these
notorious private colleges started taking signed cheques from their employees
to avoid getting caught by the regulating bodies and income tax department.
These private managements deduct the income tax amount from their employees as
per the salary paid as per the AICTE (which is always higher than the salary actually
paid to the employees). In this way, the employees pay more tax to Income Tax
department than what they are supposed to pay due to the inflated salaries by
the private managements to comply with regulating bodies. In this way also, the private managements are
benefitted.
The students suffer the most under
these notorious private managements as the latter charge exorbitant fee by
dubious means. These private managements charge money from students by way of
conducting extra classes or seminars or the projects.
The owners of these private colleges
have close connections with top politicians from all political parties and pay
money during the elections. If required, they use goons to crush the faculty
members and employees who voice against corruption and irregularities in their
colleges. Some of the colleges are run by local politicians indirectly. Hence,
the employees and students find it tough to check this menace. The
intellectuals in the affiliated universities and regulating bodies are aware of
these irregularities and corruption but they are helpless. The owners of these
private management invite top officials from these affiliated universities and
regulating bodies to their college ‘annual day’ functions and for other
ceremonies to keep them in good humor. These top officials are also paid with
huge honorarium by way of ‘guest lectures’.
The owners of these private colleges
have converted education into prostitution. Therefore, there must be
coordinated efforts from all stakeholders including government, press,
nonprofits, parents, intellectuals, and students to check corruption and
irregularities in private engineering colleges in the state of Telangana and
elsewhere in India. If essential, Central Bureau of Instigation (CBI) must
enter to check corruption in these private colleges.
The objective of any education is to
creative conducive environment for educators to share their knowledge with
students to make them as enlightened and healthy citizens. Unfortunately, it is
missing now. It is time for all of us to set the house in order to build a better
society.
Note: I have blogged this post to bring the
change in the Indian education system to create healthy education to students
as I am passionate about my students and I love my country.
"Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds."
― Franklin Roosevelt
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ReplyDeleteThe owners of these rogue colleges converted education into prostitution. They 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.
It is time to clear colleges from culprits and criminals to build a healthy education system in India.
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