The centre, which has 120 seats, only saw 50 admissions in the year 2015, and the number declined to 45 in 2016. The footfall further declined to 16 students in 2017.
Courtesy non-availability of placement cell and permanent staff, admissions at Centre for Converging Technologies, a centre for engineers at University of Rajasthan, has seen a steep decline in past few years.
The centre, which has 120 seats, only saw 50 admissions in the year 2015, and the number declined to 45 in 2016. The footfall further declined to 16 students in 2017.
“Currently we have a strength of 16, while around 50 had taken admission. Remaining students left the college during the course period. Most of them left during the first month of the session,” said a student from first year.
However, Dr Ramvir Singh, director, CCT, is confident that the admissions will not go down this July and the college is not shutting down.
“We are making efforts towards promoting the course by visiting schools and interacting with students of class 12. Last year’s admissions were affected due to NEET examination dates,” Singh said.
Students believe the admissions declined as in the absence of placement cell, the college failed to give them a secure future. Add to it the lack of staff.“There is no placement cell. We have given an application to the director demanding at least two permanent professors in each branch. We have also asked for compulsion of 75 per cent attendance so that students at least come to the college,” a student said.
In response to the issue, Singh stated that Rajasthan government does not allow permanent faculty for Self Finance courses.
“I wrote a letter to the vice-chancellor about a month back seeking seven permanent faculty in each of the four branches. State government, during this year’s budget, has allocated funds for the colleges running on SFS for more than 10 years. This is the 11th year for CCT, so another letter has been written in this context,” Singh said.
Futhermore, the students claim that another reason for less admissions is that machines in nanotechnology and biotechnology are not maintained and do not work on most days.
“When the equipment are used on regular basis, they tend to get overworked. I am currently getting them checked. We have to follow the purchase order procedure to get replacement of parts,” Singh explained.
PIL filed by a retired professor states:
- The academic merit of these courses is questionable, since these cannot be compared with any similar programme.
- Most guest faculty members are unqualified to teach Technology courses.
- As per the course requirements, the curriculum of CCT requires full time faculty of 14/15 qualified teaching staff.
- The honorarium being paid to guest faculty is in violation of UGC norms, and also in violation of state government norms.
- The total funds generated through SFS courses have no audits and the Directors/Coordinators of these courses have been using special powers on the amounts so collected.
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