Govt teachers protest new courses in colleges that lack infrastructure

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Posted online: Friday , January 04, 2008 at 12:00:00
Updated: Friday , January 04, 2008 at 02:48:14

Kolkata, January 3 Representatives of the All-Bengal State Government College and Teachers’ Association today said post-graduate courses should not be started in government colleges that lack infrastructure and faculty.

The teachers cited the example of Barasat Government College where a post-graduate course in Botany has started even though the college is starved of teachers in the undergraduate courses.

General secretary Benoy Bhusan Chakraborty said there politicisation of higher education, including the examination system, was rampant. “Head examiners, who have no past experience of conducting examinations, are appointed,” he said.

The teachers alleged that 20-25 per cent of seats in all government general degree colleges and technical colleges are vacant.

President of the association Anup Dutta Gupta said, “In spite of the recommendations of the university team that visited the college against running the post-graduate programme, the government is bent upon starting new courses.”

He added that all government colleges must be brought under one university. The organisation plans to hold a sit-in demonstration at College Square on January 8.

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