Students’ dream of better faculty dashed

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Students’ dream of better faculty dashed. The desire of the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Manthani branch to have well qualified and experienced lecturers and avail their expertise, suffered a major setback with the High Court issuing a stay order on the recruitment process over allegations of irregularities.

JNTU lecturers’ APPointments stalled

Centenary Colony (Karimnagar): The desire of the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Manthani branch to have well qualified and experienced lecturers and avail their expertise, suffered a major setback with the High Court issuing a stay order on the recruitment process over allegations of irregularities.

Hapless students, who joined the University with great expectations, are now in a quandary. With a view to appointing regular faculty, the JNTU-Hyderabad issued a notification in February 2013 and selected 40 members by conducting interviews during April and May, 2014.

But troubles began when some of the aspirants approached the High Court seeking its intervention into irregularities that took place in the recruitments. Some of the lecturers, who have been working in various colleges affiliated to JNTU on a contract basis, found fault with the University authorities for selecting candidates hailing from the neighboring Andhra Pradesh, by ignoring the local unemployed youth.

Majority of the students who joined JNTU colleges with a hope to get quality education are a highly disappointed lot. Speaking to The Hans India here on Sunday, a third year student of Mining, A Mahesh said that he was fed-up with the attitude of the college authorities. He said that they even staged a protest but did not get any positive response from the University.

Another student, Sai Charan wondered as to how a B Tech person could teach lessons to engineering students without a post-graduate degree. Students JAC president Dileep said that as the issue of the recruitment was pending in the court, they requested the University authorities to appoint at least qualified persons as contract lecturers and to get guest faculty.

Though the JNTU was started in 2010 with five courses, such as Mechanical, Mining, Civil, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, the University authorities have not taken initiatives to appoint teaching staff on a regular basis.

According to All India Council for Technical Education norms, there should be 1:15 teacher and student ratio in the class room but only four regular teaching staff was working in the entire college. All the remaining teaching staff was on contract basis.

How could it be possible for four regular teachers to maintain 1,180 students, including 270 in each department, a faculty member said on the condition of anonymity. Besides the court stay order, lack of regular Vice- Chancellor was also another reason for the delay in taking a decision on the recruitment process.

There was no regular Vice-Chancellor for the University for the last nine months after the term of Prof Rameshwar Rao was concluded on November 4, 2014. College Principal, Dr R Markandeya said that it was not proper to comment on the issue of recruitment which was still pending with the court.

He wrote a letter to the University authorities seeking Wi-Fi service provision to the students and sanction funds for purchasing books for the library. On the other hand, the State government did not sanction a single rupee for the college, he said.

Out of Rs 60 crore spent on to develop infrastructure so far, Singareni Collieries Company Limited had arranged Rs 20 crore along with a land site to raise buildings and the University has to bear the remaining amount of Rs 70 to Rs 80 lakh monthly expenditure including salaries and other expenditures.

By Raghu Paithari

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