"Make the iron hot by striking
it." ― Oliver Cromwell
TRS government in Telangana has taken
some initiatives to set irregularities and corruption in the private pharmacy,
medical and engineering colleges in the new state to create ‘Bangaru Telangana’
(Golden Telangana). However, there are some colleges that still don’t comply
with the guidelines of their affiliated universities like JNTU Hyderabad and
Osmania University.
There is a lot of corruption and
irregularities in the private colleges presently. It is the responsibility of regulating
authorities like All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the
affiliated universities for these colleges to look into these irregularities to
check corruption. The owners of these private colleges don’t pay salaries on
time, and they cheat the leaving employees by not paying their salaries for
months. They are notorious in filing wrong cases against the leaving faculty
and employees. They use the faculty during inspections and throw them after the
inspections. Their main intention is to show to the regulating authorities that
they complied with the guidelines. They don’t have the required faculty
strength as per the stipulated guidelines. They show the names of same faculty
who serve in other colleges. That means the same faculty serves in multiple
colleges simultaneously. Some faculty offers their services like the cameos in
films. It is an open secret known to everybody including the regulating
authorities. The Hindu, in its article titled ‘Names of over 50,000 teachers
figure on rolls of more than one institution’ outlined the irregularities URL: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/faculty-names-fraud-across-engineering-colleges-in-india/article7190827.ece.
These owners show to regulating authorities that they pay salaries as per the
AICTE guidelines and collect the differential amount from the faculty through
withdrawal forms before paying monthly salaries. Any common man with common
sense can understand this open corruption and irregularities if they check the
bank statements of the employees from these colleges. In some cases, the faculty
ends up paying more tax to income tax authorities since they are shown with
higher salaries on records. How can we expect excellence in Indian education when
irregularities occur in this manner? The
world will laugh at our irregularities and corruption in private colleges. Some of the owners have connection with local
criminals and mafia, and they browbeat the leaving faculty with dire
consequences. They also threaten filing wrong cases against the leaving
employees to avoid complications for them. It is unfortunate that these irregularities
are happening in ‘Golden Telangana’. Hence, the chief minister of Telangana
State, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao must take a serious note of these things and
order probe in erring colleges to create healthy education system.
It is unfortunate to bring it to the
notice that the top officials of these affiliated universities take bribes or accept
gifts from these owners of private colleges. They are also invited for ‘guest
lectures’ and ‘graduation day’ ceremonies and they get handsome honorarium from
these erring private colleges. In this way, a lot of ‘give and take’ takes
place between the owners of these private colleges and the officials of their
affiliated universities. It is time that the social media, print media,
nonprofits, government officials, intellectuals and thought leaders check
corruption and irregularities in these private colleges to create ‘Bangaru Telangana’.
Steps
to Create Healthy Educational Institutions
Students suffer a lot due to dearth of
infrastructure. Faculty suffers due to non-receipt of salaries on time from
these private colleges. Parents are caught between the devil and the deep sea.
They are not ready to fight against these erring colleges as it might adversely
affect the scores and grades of their children in these colleges. The faculty
cannot fight as they have the fear of losing their jobs. Likewise, everybody
has their own concerns. But somebody must take initiative to cleanse the Indian
education system from corruption and irregularities. Here are some steps to
create transparency in the private colleges:
- Find out whether they have adequate faculty as per the norms and rules. Ensure that they maintain adequate faculty-student ratio.
- Organize sudden inspections to find out whether the faculty is really working or are these colleges showing fake list of faculty. Check their attendance records and biometric systems to cross verify the attendance. Only then the colleges must get permission to start courses. In this way, we will be able to have the colleges that have financial and ethical stamina to conduct courses and run their institutions to provide quality education to students and offer intellectual ambience for faculty.
Those educational institutions that
are found to be unethical and corrupt must be derecognized. It gives a stern
warning to other corrupt colleges. In this way, other colleges will follow the
proper system and it ultimately helps students acquire quality education.
Remember, the day corruption enters
into Indian armed forces and educational institutions, the country will
collapse. Hence, all patriotic citizens and nonprofit organizations must come
forward to cleanse Indian education system and colleges from corruption. Jai
Hind!
“A man of courage never needs weapons,
but he may need bail.” ― Lewis Mumford, writer and philosopher
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