Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: Despite the AAP Government claiming that it’ll enhance Punjab’s schooling system because it did in Delhi, the federal government’s resolution to implement a centralized admission by means of a portal managed by a Mumbai-based non-public agency for the 142 Non-Government Aided Colleges within the state the place lakhs of scholars are finding out have left the authorities of those schools declare that they have been pressured to undertake the trail of agitations and protests because the state authorities is bent upon imposing unilateral, arbitrary choices with out consulting them.
The Non-Govt Aided Colleges Management Federation right now referred to as for an all-out struggle to guard the autonomy of the upper instructional establishments in Punjab and Chandigarh. They condemned the tepid response of the Bhagwant Singh Mann authorities to the problems confronting the Colleges.
Federation President Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina mentioned that the newest directives from the schooling division to impose centralized admission portals by means of a personal agency is unlawful, filled with flaws and being enforced with an ‘ulterior motives.’
“We have shot off letters to CM Mann and Education Minister Meet Hayer however there is no such thing as a response. Our appeals for discussions and listening to our grievances have additionally fallen on deaf ears”, mentioned Chhina.
Chhina alleged that the highest officers, hand in glove with non-public gamers, have imposed the draconian order of centralized admission by a portal developed by a Mumbai- primarily based non-public IT firm. The transfer just isn’t practicable as it should result in the harassment of the scholars and their mother and father, searching for admissions within the present educational session 2022-2023. The schools have already got their very own on-line portals which cater to the wants of the admissions. The authorities’s resolution is discriminatory because the non-public Universities had been stored out of the preview and they are going to be benefited with this scheme at the price of the government-aided schools, he mentioned.
Chhina additional famous that since there is no such thing as a provision within the Grant in Aid Scheme that authorizes the taking up of the admission means of aided schools in Punjab, rendering the choice unlawful, null and void, ab initio. Further, there’s a full violation of ideas of pure justice as no prior dialogue relating to the Centralized Online Admission course of has been held with the prime stakeholders, the aided schools.
The non-public self-financed, unaided schools will not be lined by this directive and this transfer is just directed in opposition to the aided schools in Punjab. These non-public unaided schools are instructing inter alia the identical programs as aided schools; nonetheless, it’s only the aided schools, affiliated to a few state Universities together with Punjab University, Chandigarh, Punjabi University, Patiala
and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, that are being pressured to participate in centralized on-line admission course of.
Secretary of the federation Agnese Dhillon mentioned that such techniques already introduced by the federal government for B.Ed and Law Colleges have failed miserably. Thus the choice should be taken again and the universities be given extra autonomy somewhat than imposing such arbitrary directives. Even the nitty-gritty of the executive and monetary challenges concerned will not be being seemed into.
“The worst is that the charges acquired by means of this portal will probably be deposited within the Bank Accounts of the non-public agency and never within the financial institution accounts of the universities. This is extremely objectionable as a result of there is no such thing as a clear lower coverage how the charges can be acquired again and in what stipulated time. The agency is a personal entity and the transfer may result in a lot of authorized implications impacting lakhs of scholars and their mother and father, searching for admission in establishments of upper studying,’’ she mentioned.
Chhina mentioned their delegation on Wednesday visited authorities of Higher Education and submitted a memorandum to them, citing their reservations and grievances.
“There aren’t any causes forthcoming for taking up the admission means of the three state-run universities within the State of Punjab and permitting a Mumbai-based agency to take management of the admission course of”, he said additional including that it’s being made obligatory for the aided schools to enter into an settlement with the agency to gather the charges from the scholars of their account and after deduction of their fee price switch the stability charges to the universities.
