No Govt college has regular Principal

| | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar

The State has 52 Government colleges and none of them has a regular Principal. Senior Lecturers and Readers are managing affairs as Principals-in-Charge in all colleges.

Higher Education Minister Anant Das informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJD MLA Aswini Kumar Patra on Thursday.The Minister informed that steps are being taken to fill up the vacant Principal posts in all colleges. 

He further informed that regular Principal posts have not been created in the Grant-in-aid private colleges and, hence, senior lecturers and Readers have been posted as Principal-in-charge. The Government is taking appropriate steps to regularise these Principal-in-charge as Principals.