In trying to keep pace with other boards, the state board started the concept of project submission for students of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) two years back. But now, that very thing is causing colleges much inconvenience.
Several city colleges have been finding it tough to keep and preserve all the projects submitted by students so far. While some are making space for the same in the corridors of their building, there are some which are buying new cupboards. However, there also those who, having preserved the projects for a year, are selling them off to scrap dealers.
Vice principal of KC college Mehek Gwalani said, "As students are required to do project work even in their first year of junior college, we give them a 40-page project book when they take admission — 20 pages for first year, the rest for second year."
"To store all the projects we've got so far, we've had to make a big cupboard, which has taken up a lot of space in the corridor. What irks us then is that when we do so much for the students, they don't take their own project work seriously and we have to keep chasing them for submission," he added.
Echoing Gwalani, director of KPB Hinduja College T Shiware said, "It is true that projects are taking up a lot of space in colleges. We have 6,000 students, including junior, degree and postgraduate ones. In junior college itself, we have 2,400 whose projects we have to preserve for at least a year. Hence, we are now thinking of starting a system wherein we will ask students to keep their project on a CD as well, besides the hard copy. We can then dispose of the hard copy and preserve the CD, that won't take much space. We do sell the projects as scrap after a year, but colleges don't make any money from that."
"It's true that preserving projects for a year is taking up a lot of space in colleges. Some colleges have more than 3,000 students in junior college itself, and preserving projects of all of them is quite a task," said general secretary of Maharashtra Junior College Teachers Union Anil Deshmukh.
However, chairman of Mumbai divisional board Laxmikant Pandey said, "It is not necessary for colleges to preserve students' projects for a year or even six months. They need to preserve it only for three months, after which they can dispose them off."
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