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Bihar's engineering colleges lack teachers
Thursday January 17, 2013 01:21:43 PM,
Imran Khan,
IANS
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Patna: Hundreds of
students in Bihar's seven engineering colleges are angry over
being forced to appear for their examinations without completing
their courses - thanks to lack of teachers.
The government-owned colleges have just 75 teachers against the
sanctioned strength of over 500, an education department official
said.
"Most engineering colleges don't have enough teachers. It is
affecting the students, who have been protesting time and again,"
an engineering college official in Gaya district said.
If a school cannot run without teachers, how can an engineering
college function with less than one-fourth of the required number
of teachers, he wondered. "Most of the engineering colleges in
Bihar have ad hoc teachers," he added.
The engineering colleges say they are relying on guest faculty.
"We are regretting our decision to study in our state, given the
acute shortage of teachers that affect laboratory and workshop
activities and proper courses," Mohit Kumar Singh, an engineering
student, told IANS.
Sanjay Singh, father of another engineering student in Bhagalpur,
said students are sitting for exams without attending laboratories
or workshops.
According to an official of the state education department, except
for engineering colleges in Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur, five
colleges in Gaya, Darbhanga, Motihari, Nalanda and Saran have
fewer than 10 teachers.
"There are 32 teachers in the Muzaffarpur Engineering College and
15 in the Bhagalpur Engineering College," the official said.
Three years ago, it was discovered that faculty meant for
polytechnics was taking classes in the five new engineering
colleges that were opened six years ago.
Over 200,000 students from Bihar study in engineering colleges
outside the state.
(Imran Khan can be contacted at imran.k@ians.in)
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