Dear Shri Prakash Javadekar, Honourable
HRD Minister of India
It is with deep regret I am writing
this open letter to you about the prevailing corruption and irregularities in
private engineering, medical and pharmacy colleges in the state of Telangana.
Previously I wrote an open letter to the Chief Minister of Telangana requesting
him to close down fraudulent colleges in Telengana and offered some suggestions
to improve in the education system. URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in/2016/07/an-open-letter-to-shri-k-chandrashekar.html.
Some of my suggestions were implemented
and some of the fraudulent colleges were closed. But much needs to be still done
to streamline the Indian education.
I served in Indian Air Force and
joined teaching profession with a passion to make a difference in the lives of
students. I worked as a professor in various private engineering colleges in
Telangana and most of them are corrupt and fraudulent who cheat faculty by not
paying salaries when the faculty leave the college. They don’t give relieving
letters to the leaving faculty. If faculty questions, they file wrong cases in
court to drag the issues for years. For instance, I worked in a private college
in Hyderabad (the name of the college is known to AICTE (All India Council of Technical
Education) Chairman, JNTU Hyderabad Registrar and all the faculty members of
college) which did not pay my salary for more than three months. Worse, it did
not give me the relieving letter at the time of leaving. When I raised the
issue with AICTE and JNTU Hyderabad, it sent me the relieving order after many
months by a post. But my salary is still pending from 01 July 2015. These
managements cheat students by taking money through dubious means. If university
officials don’t give affiliation due to irregularities, these rogue colleges approach
courts to get a temporary relief. Here are my observations to bring it your
notice to close down the fraudulent colleges and improve the Indian education.
- Colleges blackmail students to
pay money through various means, and students comply for fearing
retribution. They pay because the internal marks are in the hands the
faculty. Parents don’t want to take risk as it would adversely affect the
future of their children. Hence, students end up paying money.
- The managements of these
fraudulent colleges suck blood from students like leeches. Those who fail
to pay money are punished through dubious means. They are not implementing
biometric attendance of students and faculty. The officials of the affiliated
universities are incompetent to enforce the biometric attendance of
faculty and students because they receive bribes.
- These fraudulent colleges don’t
pay salaries as per the pay commission but claim to be paying on records.
They take the differential amount by force from the employees on the day
of crediting the salary into the college accounts. If the employees fight such
irregularities they file wrong cases.
- The faculty in fraudulent
colleges face huge exploitation, unreasonable terminations, violation of
fundamental rights, deprivation of benefits, and lack of adequate
grievance mechanism to name a few.
- There is a close nexus between
these fraudulent colleges and political parties in Telangana. These
fraudulent managements pay donations to political parties to enable the
political parties to remain as mute spectators whenever complaints
surface.
- These fraudulent colleges believe
in brand building rather than adding value to the students and the
society.
Suggestions
I love to be part of the solution
rather than the problem. Hence, I offer some suggestions to consider improving
the Indian education system:
- Close down the fraudulent
colleges that have the frequent complaints from faculty and students.
- Organize surprise inspections to
find out the irregularities such as inadequate faculty, poor
infrastructure, ill-treatment of faculty and students.
- Check the bank accounts of employees
whether salaries are credited promptly. Colleges are notorious in
manipulating the salaries of employees. They show high salary on records
but pay less salary in reality. At the time of crediting the salary, these
fraudulent colleges take the differential payment through self-withdrawal
forms from the staff. You can easily check these irregularities because
all employees withdraw the differential payment on the same day of
crediting salaries. To check this, the income tax must call for the
details from the banks and the fraudulent colleges. Additionally, organize
frequent income tax raids to check black money.
- To redress the grievance
mechanism in each college, there is an inbuilt mechanism in the college
website to conduct it. The members involved in this grievance redressal
mechanism are the employees of the colleges. How can they go against their
managements? Some of them lick the legs of the management to ensure their
survival. Hence, ensure that the grievance redresssal mechanism is
effective by involving the outsiders with credibility to redress it.
- Invite the experienced
intellectuals with great track record and integrity to find out innovative
solutions to address these challenges. An integrated efforts from all
stakeholders including politicians, intellectuals, officials and colleges
is the need of the hour to streamline the system.
- You cannot build a superstructure
on a crooked infrastructure. Hence, build a strong infrastructure by
eliminating fraudulent colleges that harm students and damage society.
Educational institutions are the temples of learning. We must maintain
their sanctity.
Indians
Treat Education more than a Religion
Education interlinks all religions to
come to one platform in India. Indians treat education more than a religion.
They treat it as sacrosanct. Unfortunately, criminals and mafia entered into it
who converted education into prostitution. They ill-treat intellectuals, cheat
faculty by filing wrong cases, and don’t pay salaries. Although it is a
daunting task to set the house in order, it is possible by making system
transparent and closing fraudulent colleges with a track record of complaints
from faculty and students. There is a corruption between the officials and
college owners during inspections thus harming the interests of students and
faculty. To please these officials, the notorious college managements invite top
officials to college events and functions and pay huge money through
honorarium. In fact, it is not an honorarium but a bribe. These higher
officials don’t take any action against these fraudulent colleges because they
received huge bribes from them. Worse, these corrupt officials pass the
information about the people who complained to alert the fraudulent management
to avenge. Hence, deny permission to the top officials from universities and
other education bodies to go to these colleges as special guests.
The problem with private colleges is
viewing everything from commercial perspective rather than from education
perspective. Previously philanthropists founded educational institutions to add
value to the society. Presently managements with criminal background are
founding educational institutions to exploit students to make money.
It is unfortunate that the educational
institutions that are supposed to shell out students with ethical values are unethical.
How can we expect ethical students and ethical society? Remember, the day the corruption enters into
armed forces and educational institutions the country will collapse. Therefore,
ensure that the cancer of corruption doesn’t creep into Indian Armed Forces and
educational institutions. Jai Hind!
“A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of
history.” ― Mohandas K. Gandhi
Note: These are my observations in the private
colleges where I worked as a professor in the State of Telangana. Similar
fraudulent practices occur in other states of India also.
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Sir, a bold post on the prevailing corruption and frauds in educational institutions. Hats off to your post! These managements have converted education into prostitution.
ReplyDeleteGovt must implement your suggestions.