MF AHMAD
Daltonganj, Sept 21: A total of four B. Ed colleges located in Daltonganj are working overtime to prepare ‘self-disclosure’ with regard to multiple things such as salary statement of faculties and if any excess fee has been collected from the aspirant of the BEd colleges etc.
Moreover, these colleges have been given seven days time to email or send the filled self-disclosures, beginning September 19, when these colleges were inspected by Naresh Kumar, inspector of the state universities, Raj Bhavan Jharkhand.
Notably, the Proctor of the Nilamber Pitamber University Dr KC Jha confirmed the inspection of the four B. Ed colleges by the inspector of the state universities but declined to give any detail saying the visiting inspector did not wish to interact with the media persons.
The self-disclosures include disclosure on the fee structure break up, a reason to be cited for any extraction of higher or excessive fee, appointment and joining letters of the faculties, the role of the University Representative, students’ attendance, last three years of students’ records, performance appraisal report of last three years, statement of accounts (not audit report) of the college, total fees collected and expenditures incurred by way of payment of salary to the faculties, salary statement of the faculties since April 2020 etc.
Sources said that the B. Ed college management is always seen with squinted eyes by the authorities notwithstanding how these colleges are run. Recruiting teachers is too difficult and even when teachers are recruited, there is no guarantee if they will stay for long.
A noted physician Dr RP Sinha who has a fleet of educational institutions including one B. Ed college named Elite Public B. Ed college Chiyanki said the management of any B. Ed college remains under pressure and has self-doubt as if it has erred only and there is nothing good with these colleges to show.
Dr Sinha said this attitude of the authorities towards the B. Ed colleges needs to be changed as these colleges also try hard to give the best of the teaching within their minimal resources.
He said NET qualified or PhD passed faculties are too hard to get as a result they settle with available human resources and this is questioned by the authorities. The requirement for faculties is rigidly high in the B. Ed colleges but in accordance with this, faculties are not around and this leads to academic irregularity, said other sources.
Dr Sinha added that the management of these colleges has reason to believe that they are always a subject of a drubbing by the authorities and this adversely affects the morale of the management. He said the management of the B. Ed colleges deserves fair treatment.
However, sources said the management of these colleges unabashedly pay lesser salary to the faculties citing financial crunch etc which in many cases are found to be imaginary than real.
The NCTE has well-laid rules and regulations for the B. Ed and the M. Ed and other allied things and the B. Ed colleges do try to adhere to it as far as possible but there are inexplicable circumstances where deficiency is bound to occur and this may be seen not as any violation or defiance by the management, opined Dr Sinha.
