A day after Nagpur University cleared the alleged 'illegal' proposal of partial 'carry on', academicians associated with it slammed the administration led by vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal for bowing down to private engineering colleges and diluting academic standards of university. They said never in history of any university such a rule was made where students were granted admissions but not allowed to appear in exams. Some plan to move to the judiciary against this decision.
Owing to lack of qualified faculty and infrastructure in several new private engineering colleges in the state, over 6,000 postgraduate (M.E., M.Tech, M.B.A., M.Arch and M.Plan) seats went abegging at the end of the government’s single window counselling this year.
A small percentage gets into education and goes on to teach in medical colleges. Again, the lucre is better in the private medical colleges, certainly better than the pay scales the government is able to afford. Which leads us to the crisis that medical colleges, particularly State-run, are facing today.