Poor infra hits 84 govt colleges opened in 2 yrs

Jaipur: Most of the 84 government colleges in the state opened in the last two years amid the pandemic are facing a drastic shortage of faculty, facilities, and infrastructure.
The classes are running full to capacity after a lull of two years as the academic session started, leaving the students to bear the brunt of shortages. Many colleges have raised the objection to these shortages to the officials through letters and in meetings but have received only assurances.
The state has 356 colleges, including 80 only girls colleges. The government has opened 48 and 36 colleges in the academic year 2020-21 and 2021-22.
“About 208 colleges don’t have a principal and almost half of the 12,799 sanctioned posts in the state-run colleges are vacant,” said the principal, who has been writing to the officials.
These new colleges are running on a makeshift campus in old government buildings almost half of them have no plan as to when they will be shifted into their own building. Most of colleges are also facing the problem of finding a science and commerce faculty.
The science stream requires technical staff, laboratories, and libraries which the state is finding it difficult to arrange it quickly. Requesting anonymity, a principal of a government college says that many students, especially girls are left with no choice to take up only humanities.
“The next government college from my location is almost 70 kilometre away making the choice unacceptable for many parents to send their girls to far-off colleges,” said a principal.
Official requesting anonymity says they have been working day in out to make the colleges work as usual, but it will be some years before they put all the colleges into their own building. “The recruitment is not alone subjected to the government but also always faces legal scrutiny which delays the process indefinitely,” said the official.
BJP state president Satish Poonia lammed the government for “announcing colleges year after another without any thought”.