“It requires a lot of courage to
become an educator as it is not for everybody. If a parent is unworthy,
children are spoiled; if a doctor neglects his duty, the patient dies; if an
engineer performs poorly, the infrastructure collapses; and if an educator
makes a mistake, an entire generation is ruined.” – Professor M.S. Rao
It is reported that the name of the
same faculty as a teaching resource is available in more than one college. It
shows the irregularities in colleges in the state of Telangana and other states
in India. Although it is known to many, nobody takes it seriously. In Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana[1],
nearly 8,000 names were repeated across more than one college, Mr. Dubbudu and
his team found, which meant that a quarter of the total engineering faculty in
the States consisted of duplicate names. In all, nearly 90 per cent of the over
1,500 accredited engineering colleges in the States had at least one
‘duplicate’ teacher on their faculty.
Some of the private engineering
colleges in Telangana State are run by liquor barons and real estate brokers who
converted these private colleges into money spinners. They don’t follow
professional standards and they lack ethics and etiquette thus bringing down
the standards of education and educators.
Some of them don’t follow rules and regulations as they have close nexus
with politicians and political parties. They break rules and regulations and
collect huge fee from students for being absent to the institutions and on
various other projects. They don’t pay the salaries to their employees when the
latter leave their educational institutions. They also cow down the leaving
employees if the latter intend to take legal action against these erring
educational institutions. Majority of educators don’t fight and they leave
without taking the salary of the last month. There are a very few faculty who
are ready to fight legally. But they are harassed by the managements by
leveling wrong cases against them.
The managements of the private
engineering colleges are noted for pitting one faculty member against another faculty
member to break their unity and to create ill-will among them. It is like a
‘divide and rule’ which is not healthy in the long term for the Indian
education. Most faculty members don’t intervene when one of their colleagues is
harmed or denied with rights and salary as they think it is the problem of an
individual. In fact, they must know that it is everybody’s problem in the
long-run. When management harms the interests of a faculty member, they can harm
other faculty members also when the time comes. Hence, faculty members must
unite to fight for their rights.
Paying bribes and getting ranked has
become the order of the day for these notorious educational institutions. They
are busy building their brands rather than building infrastructure and imparting
quality education to their students.
Most of the educational institutions
don’t pay salaries as per the latest Pay commission. They show on records that
they pay the salaries as per the AICTE norms but take the differential amount
from the faculty every month. Therefore,
the Income Tax department must check such transactions and close down the
erring educational institutions immediately. If required, CBI inquiry must be
ordered on the erring educational institutions for cheating students and
faculty and on corruption. They cheat students by taking money by way of
condonation fee and cheat faculty by not paying last month salary and also
summer vacation salary. There are some private educational institutions who
hire senior faculty members to show during inspections of AICTE, JNTU and their
respective universities and terminate their services once inspections are over
by citing improper feedback or on disciplinary grounds.
Most of the regulators are aware of
these irregularities. To please those regulators, the managements of the
educational institutions invite such regulators to functions and on ‘graduation
day’ celebrations and offer them decent money or gifts. As a reciprocal
response, such regulators turn blind eye to the complaints filed by the faculty
members.
The TRS government took some
corrective steps to check the current irregularities. It conducted sudden
inspections to check irregularities. Some of the managements of these private
colleges are noted for manipulation. They shift faculty from one college to
another college within their group of educational institutions to meet the JNTU
and AICTE requirements.
To summarize, it is essential to clean
the education system and the practices in private engineering colleges in
Telangana and other states. Remember, the day corruption enters into
educational institutions and armed forces, the country will collapse. Hence,
all stakeholders including students, faculty, regulators, media and nonprofits
must unite to check irregularities in erring private educational institutions
to clean the system and to add sanctity to education. Remember, education is
for sale, not educators.
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