NU stops 1st yr admissions of 21 colleges fully, 72 partially

Nagpur: After deciding to permanently disaffiliate 37 colleges operating without infrastructure and even a single teacher, Nagpur University has now stopped first year admissions of 21 more colleges for the same reasons.
These 21 colleges are among 93-odd colleges which failed to improve infrastructure and appoint regular teachers. The only difference is these 21 have failed to appoint teachers for all of its courses while remaining 72 have teachers for some of courses.
Senior NU officials said the list of all erring colleges and their courses would be uploaded on the university website in a couple of days.
Senior academician Baban Taywade slammed NU’s move while accusing vice-chancellor SP Kane and pro-VC Pramod Yeole of behaving like “dictators”. The Principals Forum led by him had convened an emergent meeting with the VC on NU premises on Wednesday, but no solution was found out.
“They’re simply not ready to listen to our grievances. Both are adamant and want to close down all affiliated colleges by coming out with absurd conditions, which are prevalent only in NU. If admissions to all these colleges are stopped, it would reduce a whopping 70,000 seats. We’re contemplating knocking the high court’s doors, once NU’s list is published,” a visibly angry Taywade said.
NU stopped their admissions basically for three reasons. First is recommendation by NU’s Local Enquiry Committees (LACs) to continue affiliation for various reasons. Second is those failing to improve their infrastructure as per the intake capacity and third is the absence of full-time NU-approved teachers. “All these colleges were issued notices in July last year pointing out all these deficiencies, but majority of them failed to take corrective measures, till date,” officials clarified.
In its notices, NU made it mandatory for all these 93 colleges to appoint teachers for undergraduate (UG) courses. All of them had earlier appointed one full-time teacher for postgraduate (PG) courses and based on that they were operating, as NU had made it mandatory to appoint at least one regular teacher. “For all these years, the PG teachers used to teach UG courses and nothing was wrong in that. Now, NU wants different set of teachers for PG and UG, which is very difficult. When we’re charging a meagre fee of Rs2,000-Rs5,000 from the students, how can we pay hefty salaries of the regular teachers,” Taywade asked.
NU had issued two to three reminders to these erring colleges for removing deficiencies and set a deadline of March 31, but they failed to respond. It was only after NU decided to stop their first year admissions that they approached the authorities protesting the move. “We’re still open and if they appoint teachers, we will allow them to admit students like last year,” officials said.