JAIPUR: The state government has found out a way to operate 35 newly opened colleges in the state which were announced in the last budget session.
According to the recommendations made by the state finance department, these colleges will be run by a society.
These colleges have been criticised for not getting any budget for new recruitments.
To get away with this, the finance department has decided to form a society that will be solely responsible in running these colleges, including conducting recruitments and managing the finances.
RAJ-MES is another society which is already functioning for eight medical colleges in the state.
College education commissioner Sandesh Nayak while talking to TOI explained, “Just like RAJ-MES, the finance department has asked us to form a society for the newly opened colleges that will fasten up the process of recruitment as well.
This society will help focus on these colleges and problem of transfer to different parts of the state will be solved as candidates selected by the society will stay within it.
Its process will start soon.” The order of the finance department mentions that until the process of formation of society completes, the vacancy for teachers will be filled by the guest faculty under the program ‘Vidhya Sambal Model’.
Reacting to the formation of society, Rajasthan University and College Teachers Association (R), general secretary Sushil Kumar Bissu claimed it to be another flop scheme of the government.
Bissu explained, “Colleges under RAJ-MES, charges Rs 7.5 lakh per year to per student which turns into crore of rupees every year.
Hence, the society is able to run itself without any outside help which is the motive of forming it.
But in government colleges, fees are barely Rs 1,000 which is not affordable to the poor students.
How will the society function?” He said that if the government increases the fees of the colleges, the purpose of providing education to every student in the remote corners of Rajasthan will be lost.
There are many students who are provided with scholarship to deposit Rs 1,000 for their fees now.
If the fees are increased, they will find it even more difficult.
The result of this society will be seen in the future, he said.