SILCHAR, May 25: With private colleges mushrooming in every corner, Government and government-aided Colleges are facing tough competition from them with an impression of better educational facilities that the latter seriously lacks and parents giving more preference to private institutes than government and government aided colleges.
An impression has been built that private institutions are more advanced in teaching process than the government ones.
Moreover, with numerous career options to choose, vocational training being imparted in private institutions, the scope in government colleges is less. This observation, or to be precise, apprehension, was clearly heard in the fifth Annual Zonal Conference of the Assam College Teachers’ Association (ACTA) held at Cachar College.
Assam University vice principal Prof Tapodhir Bhattacharjee in his chief guest lecture, lamented that college teachers occasionally refuse to respond to the invitation made by AUS authority to take special classes for the University students. Bhattacharjee, whose tenure as VC is engulfed with numerous controversies ranging of nepotism to corruption and said that the University was passing through a phase of turmoil and it would take some time to bring it in order.
Meanwhile, various speakers in the occasion expressed concern over the gradual decline of student in-take in Government Colleges.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) had already made it clear that it would curtail funds for Colleges by 1 lakh if the number of intake in the arts stream was less by one student and in case of science, one student less meant reduction of Rs 6 lakh from the college annual fund.
The Annual Zonal Conference of ACTA held on Sunday was presided over by its zonal president Santosh Chakrabarty, ACTA central committee president Dr Apurba Kumar Das and Gojen Basumatary of the central committee were present in the meeting. THE SENTINEL
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