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Growth of Higher Education In Bangaru Telangana
Highlights
There are 397 Government Junior Colleges and 4 Government Vocational Junior colleges under the administrative control of the Director of Intermediate Education. The functioning of 43 Private Aided Junior Colleges with regard to the Grant-in-aid, service conditions and academic matters for all practical purposes is being looked after by the Director of Intermediate Education.
Higher Education
There are 397 Government Junior Colleges and 4 Government Vocational Junior colleges under the administrative control of the Director of Intermediate Education. The functioning of 43 Private Aided Junior Colleges with regard to the Grant-in-aid, service conditions and academic matters for all practical purposes is being looked after by the Director of Intermediate Education.
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After completing Intermediate Studies (Class 12th) conventional courses in Science, Arts and Commerce and Vocational Courses are offered. 29 Vocational courses are also offered in 588 Junior colleges in the field of Engineering & Technology, Agriculture, Home Science, Para-medical, Business & Commerce and Humanities.
Vocationalisation of Education
NVEQF Pilot
The Government of India approved Pilot Project under NVEQF (National Vocational Education Qualification Frame Work) to be implemented in the State on Vocationalisation of Higher Education. The approved cost is Rs.1247.73 Lakhs, out of which the Central share is Rs.1066.73 Lakhs and State share is Rs.181.00 Lakhs.
Short term of Vocational Course
There are 24 selected short term Vocational Courses belonging to Engineering, IT, Retail, Home Science, Animal Husbandry and other sectors. During 2014-15, 1333 students were trained from 2nd June , 2014 to 31st Jan, 2015 through Short Term Vocational Courses. The State Institute of Vocational Education is conducting 3 months and 1-year duration certificate courses for the benefit of drop outs and others, like SSC failed/passed, Inter failed/passed candidates through-out the State.
Collegiate Education
The Department of collegiate education ensures quality, equity and access to higher education for the students. The department monitors academic quality in 126 Government degree colleges and 69 aided colleges existing in the State. The department also looks after the development needs of all Government Colleges. There are 195 degree colleges (126 Government and 69 aided) with 1,46,124 students (87,339 in Government colleges and 58,785 in aided colleges).
Capacity building
Quality in Higher education is ensured through accreditation made by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). As on 31-01-2015, 55 Government degree colleges were accredited in the Cycle 1, and 31 Government degree colleges were accredited in Cycle 2. Further State Quality Assurance Cell, the functional unit of SLQACC, is established in the Commissionerate of Collegiate Education, to take up quality enhancing activities, to plan and organize post accreditation activities in the institutions, and to plan and organize activities and programmes that help expediting the NAAC accreditation of institutions in the State.
SQAC organized number of workshops, conferences, seminars etc., for creating quality awareness at the O/o CCE and also at different colleges across the State.
Technical Education
The Department of Technical Education is responsible in the state to promote technical education. The objective is to bring out engineers and technicians with technical knowledge, adequate skills in order to meet the technical skills requirements as per the needs of the industry. There are 1356 Diploma & Degree Level professional Institutions in the State with a total intake of 3, 47,950.
Establishment of Skill Development Centre
To improve the quality in technical education, 27 Skill Development Centers (SDC) have been established in Polytechnics with a cost of Rs.30.00 lakh for each SDC to provide add on skills for employability of Polytechnic Students. 10,028 students have been trained since inception.
Higher Education in Telangana
Telangana faces several challenges in higher education and one of these relate to student’s access to Higher Education in the new State. With majority of higher education institutions concentrated in the urban locations of Hyderabad, Rangareddy, and Warangal districts, access to these institutions of higher education for the more populous rural youth, remains a pipe dream.
The distribution of higher education institutions across the State is shown below
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Initatives in Health Sector
Availability of health care services are found to be inadequate both quantitatively and qualitatively. The State of Telangana lags behind the National Averages in respect of number of health indicators. Concerned over the poor health status of the State, the Government has taken several initiatives. It is well accepted that the expenditure on health care is an investment in human development, which will result in lasting the benefi ts to the people and improve their productivity. For providing basic health facilities to all citizens, Government has introduced and implemented various health schemes and programmes.
Health and Family Welfare
There are 4863 Sub-centers, 661 Primary Health Centers, 114 Community Health Centers, 42 Area Hospi¬tals, 8 District Hospitals, 5 Mother and Child Care hospitals and 5 Teaching hospitals apart from 55 Urban Family Welfare Centers, 11 Urban Health Posts in Hyderabad and 87 Urban Health Centers to provide ma¬ternal health care, child health care and family welfare services to the people of the State.
Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)
ASHA Programme is the key component of Community Process. ASHA will take steps to the Community on Maternal & Child Health activities. ASHA also creates awareness to the community on Nutrition, basic sanitation and Hygienic practices, Healthy living and working condition, information on existing Health Ser¬vices and need for timely use of Health services. The total number of ASHA sanctioned in Rural Areas are 28019, in position are 25818. In Urban 2660 ASHAs are sanctioned and 2502 are in position.
Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neo-Natal Care (Cemonc) Services
There are 68 CEMONC Centers in the State. These centres were established in the districts at select 4 to 9 First Referral Units to promote institutional deliveries, attend emergency pregnancy, delivery and child birth cases being reported from within a range of 35 to 40 kms. Obstetrician and anesthetist specialist services and emergency blood transfusion services are made available round-the-clock.
24-Hrs Mother & Child Health Centers
There are 340 PHCs, which were notified as 24 hour round the clock Mother and Child Health Care centers, to promote institutional deliveries, as 50% of the maternal deaths occur during or immediately after child birth and also to reduce infant and neo-natal mortalities. 14480 deliveries were conducted during the period from April to December 2014.
Village Health & Nutrition Day Centers
Village Health & Nutrition Days are regularly conducted in 32,143 villages in the State to increase community awareness on age at marriage, registration of all pregnant women at 12 weeks, 3 times check up by MPHA (F), one time by Medical Offi cer, birth planning at 7th month of pregnancy, promotion of institutional de¬liveries, post-natal care services to be delivered women & new born child, breast feeding practices, immuni¬zation services, promotion of spacing methods, sterilizations, vasectomies and treatment of minor ailments.
G.Rajendera Kumar
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