SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, July 1: The high hopes of getting rid of teachers’ crisis at the constituent colleges of Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University (BBMKU) has been shattered by the new regular Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr Shukdeo Bhoi.
All ten Dhanbad and Bokaro-based constituent colleges of BBMKU have been reeling under acute shortage of faculty. They had high hopes from VC Dr Shukdeo Bhoi for getting reprieved. Especially, the Sindri College where only 11 teachers are working against the total sanctioned posts of 36 faculty members.
But reportedly, the new VC said that crisis of teachers is not a new problem when a delegation of Sindri College under Principal Dr Nakul Prasad made a courtesy visit to him on Wednesday to greet the new VC on assuming office.
In the course of conversation, when the delegation informed him that the college is facing acute shortage of teachers, the VC replied “This is nothing new. All colleges of the university are facing similar problems.”
A member of the delegation said that they had not hoped such a reply from the vice-chancellor. “Since he is the second regular VC of the university after Dr Anjani Kumar Sirvastava, we had high hopes from him. But we returned disappointed,” said the member.
A senior teacher of the university said that though VBU VC Dr Mukul Narayan Dev had additional charge of BBMKU, no teacher or college returned empty handed from his chamber.
A senior professor of post graduate department said that the dictum ‘morning shows the day’ hundred percent fits with the new vice- chancellor. His reply was not only for Sindri College albeit for all constituent colleges of the university. It looks like the university has fallen from bad to worst with change of guard.
BBMKU is reeling under acute shortage of teachers. The university has sanctioned posts of 625 teachers but 414 posts out of them are vacant. The oldest college of the university, PK Roy Memorial College, has strength of 13,000 students but the institution has only 8 regular teachers. KB College Bermo has only three regular teachers.
Sindri College is in the worst condition out of all. Among five science subjects, the college has only one contractual teacher each in physics, botany and zoology but the department of chemistry and mathematics are without a teacher.
Post graduate departments have sanctioned posts of 159 teachers but even after five years of the university, not a single teacher has been appointed. All senior teachers of colleges have been deployed in university departments resulting in crisis.
