Bastar colleges lack adequate teachers: Bafna

Raipur, April 04, 2012

BJP MLA Santosh Bafna on Wednesday said that colleges in Bastar division lack adequate teaching staff due to indifference and negligence of Higher Education department. The Bastar colleges have only buildings on the name of higher education and only examinations are being conducted there while neither they have professors or other staff nor other basic infrastructure like laboratories, etc, he said through call attention notice in Vidhan Sabha.

He said the students aiming to pursue higher education and taking admission in Bastar colleges are in dilemma about their future. There are 19 colleges in Bastar division none had more than 25% percent of teaching staff against the approved posts. He pointed that the biggest government college of Bastar division was in Jagdalpur where government had approved 71 posts of teachers for about 7000 students but only 18 were teaching currently.

He informed that none of the 19 colleges have teaching faculty in physics, chemistry and mathematics. There future of science students in Bastar is stark, he said.

He said poor students cannot pursue their higher studies in other places and hence they were compelled to take admission in Bastar colleges.

The Higher Education Minister Ramvichar Netam said the government was committed to fill the vacant posts of professors and lecturers. He informed that the PSC had completed the procedure of conducting examination and interview for about 878 posts of assistant lecturers for 32 subjects for state government colleges but selection list could not be issued due to some relevant cases pending with the court.

He further informed that about 63 posts of office staff in 2010-11 and 18 posts in 2011-12 were filled in different colleges of Bastar division. He admitted that the Bastar colleges lacked science faculty and said the government had made alternative arrangement like appointing relevant teachers through contract, inviting guest lecturers and through public participation.

He said government was alert about welfare of the local students and had taken several initiatives to provide significant facilities to the regions like Bastar by opening new colleges in distant areas.