Dear Honourable Chief Minister of
Telangana,
You must have heard about oil mafia,
sand mafia and now you must hear about college mafia who are fraudsters and
leeches who suck money from students through dubious means; ill-treat faculty;
and cheat the leaving faculty without paying their salaries and filing false
cases against them.
While I appreciate your sincere
efforts to close down the erring and unethical educational institutions in
Telangana, there are still fraudulent colleges that cheat university officials
during inspections, cheat students and faculty; and government through false
reimbursement claims.
I worked in various private engineering
colleges in Hyderabad and found a lot of irregularities and corruption. I
regret to bring it to your notice publicly that a college in Hyderabad cheated
me by not giving my salary more than three months causing mental agony and
hardships to me and my family. I complained to appropriate forums including
AICTE Chairman and the Registrar of JNTU Hyderabad. The AICTE Chairman, Prof.
Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, and the Registrar of JNTU Hyderabad, Dr. N. Yadaiah are
aware of my issue and know my name. In spite of my repeated requests to credit
my salary, the college has not credited my salary into my account. I don’t want
other intellectuals to undergo agony like me. Hence, I am writing openly some of
the irregularities happening in private engineering colleges in Telangana State
to bring to your notice so that you can take remedial measures to streamline
the education system:
- Most colleges don’t have adequate
infrastructure. Students don’t have adequate facilities to acquire quality
education. Required number of laboratories are not available.
- Most colleges don’t have adequate
faculty strength. These notorious colleges engage ghost faculty. That
means they hire the faculty at the time of inspection to cheat the
visiting inspection officials.
- Most colleges don’t pay salaries
as per the norms. They show on record that they pay as per the latest pay
commission and follow the norms. They are notorious by crediting the
salaries into the accounts of faculty and withdrawing the differential
amount forcibly on the same day through self-withdrawal forms signed by
the faculty. Any bank official can easily identify these irregularities.
Any person with common sense can easily identify how colleges cheat
intellectuals by taking their signatures on the withdrawal forms on the
day of giving salaries. At times the faculty end up paying more income tax
as officially the salary on records is higher than what is received in
reality.
- The faculty don’t receive their
salaries on time. Most colleges don’t pay salaries to the leaving
employees. Worse some colleges don’t give relieving order to the relieved
employees. The owners are sadists without any ethical values, and they harass
leaving intellectuals by various means. When the leaving faculty challenges
them, these fraud managements file wrong cases against such
employees.
- The name of the same faculty
member appears in other colleges also. Previously, these fraud colleges
collected fee reimbursement from government fraudulently by showing fake
students.
- These fraud colleges give advertisement
to recruit faculty. They get lots of CVs at the time of recruitment and
misuse CVs during inspections. At times, these fraudsters take scanned
copies of certificates from the prospective applicants before interview
and show them during inspections without the knowledge of faculty. Faculty
won’t be recruited and the colleges misuse the documents.
- These fraud colleges have close
nexus with other fraud colleges. They share faculty members to cheat
inspection officials from their affiliated universities. They fool
students and officials by listing ghost faculty.
- The college owners are notorious
for inviting the influential university officials for ‘guest lectures’ and
‘graduation day’ events and pay handsome remuneration. It is an indirect
way of bribing these university officials.
- These fraud colleges openly flout
the norms. They are confident that they can bribe officials during
inspections. The corrupt officials are not in the mood to redress the
grievances made against these colleges by students and faculty.
- The inspecting officials are
aware of the irregularities in these colleges. These colleges are noted
for offering bribes to visiting inspection officials. Some of the
university officials are corrupt, and they hardly take any action.
- These fraud colleges flout labor
laws, and the labor officials are aware of them but they don’t take any
action since they also receive bribes regularly.
- Some of the colleges are run by
so called entrepreneurs with criminal background. Some money lenders,
toddy contractors and real estate agents have reinvented as educational
entrepreneurs to cheat students, faculty, university officials and
government. They have no passion or vision to build quality educational
institutions. Their mission is to cheat somehow to make quick money. How
can you build Bangaru Telangana with such managements?
- Some of the visiting officials
during inspection are very strict and honest. They cancel affiliations to
erring colleges. The owners of these private colleges apply political
pressure on these university officials based on caste, community or
region. When honest university officials cancel affiliations, the
notorious owners approach courts and bribe there also.
Solutions
Here are some solutions to these
problems. We must have quality educational institutions, not quantity. Cancel
affiliations to the fraudulent colleges with a track record of complaints such
as not paying salaries to the leaving employees and collecting extra fee from
students indirectly through dubious means. Create a grievance cell where
faculty and students can complain irregularities anonymously. Ensure that every
college has adequate number of faculty as per the prescribed norms,
laboratories and infrastructure to run courses successfully. Make biometric attendance
system for faculties, students and employees compulsory. Check the bank records
of each college whether the salaries are paid promptly. Check the open
irregularities such as taking the differential salary amount from the faculty forcibly
on the day of crediting the salary. Involve income tax authorities to check
these irregularities.
It is time you checked these unethical
businessmen masquerading as educationists. Remember, if corruption enters into
educational institutions and armed forces, the country will collapse.
Educational institutions are the
temples of learning. The onus lies with you to maintain sanctity by weeding out
fraudsters and criminals. Only then you will be able to ensure quality
education and shell out students with ethical values.
I request you to build a strong
educational system where intellectuals are comfortable with pay and perks to
share their knowledge, and students are confident of acquiring knowledge to
grow as healthy citizens. Jai Hind!
Note: I authored a book sharing my bitter
experiences with the colleges I worked in Hyderabad. The book is yet to go for
print, and is tentatively titled as “Sharing in Success! A Guide to Acquire
Insights on Academic, Career, Leadership and Entrepreneurial Success.” URL: http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in/2016/07/free-chapter-professor-msraos-book_6.html
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