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| 20 year old GCET Jammu facing Govt neglect, Adhoc faculty running engineering courses | | Kashmir oriented selfish custodians of Jammu silent? | | Syed Junaid Hashmi | 8/22/2014 10:56:27 AM |
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Jammu, Aug 21: Relocated under duress for purely political reasons and without seemingly proper application of mind to a remote corner of Jammu city, shortage of faculty coupled inadequate science laboratories have crippled functioning of prestigious Government College for Engineering and Technology (GCET) Jammu.
Higher education department headed by ex-speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone is running the department on Adhoc basis, little realising the fact that engineering colleges require subject specialists, world class infrastructure alongwith all kinds of modern machines and equipments. 29 permanents Assistant and Associate Professors are running the five departments of the engineering college.
This is 49 short of total number of faculty members required for running Government engineering college. Seriousness of Government in raising standards of engineering college can be gauged from the fact that the department of higher education has advertised vacant posts of lecturers in all the five departments for filling them on contract basis. The lecturers so appointed would be given a paltry sum of Rs. 12,000 which is given to candidates appointed on academic arrangement basis.
These lecturers are appointed for 11 months and once the session is over, the posts are re-advertised for being filled on temporary basis again. Such is callousness of Ministry that it has advertised posts of lecturers to be appointed on contractual basis in various disciplines when the session 2014-15 is to start by September 1. Principal of the college Dr. Sameru Sharma has been assigned task of holding screening test of the eligible candidates and making appointments.
Opened up in Jammu after 47 years of independence had passed in the year 1994, recruitment rules are yet to be framed for the faculty of GCET Jammu. Due to this major shortcoming despite college being more than 20 year old, Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (PSC) has repeatedly refused to advertise posts of lecturers, assistant and associate professors. They have been telling GCET officials that once the rules are framed, they would advertise posts in bulk.
About the rules, sources said that the concerned file has been moving from one table to another at snail's pace. They added that none in the civil secretariat is interested in getting the file approved. Once the recruitment rules are framed, sources said that PSC has pledged with GCET of addressing the issue of faculty shortage. They maintained that till the day does not arrive, Government College for Engineering and Technology (GCET) Jammu would continue be run on Adhoc basis.
J&K Government's seriousness further gets reflected from the faculty position of civil engineering department which has two Associate Professors as permanent faculty alongwith an employee of PHE department. The department requires 12 members in the teaching faculty but has just three. Of these three, only one Associate Professor has done specialisation. The other associate professor is just graduate from Regional Engineering College (REC) Kurukshetra.
Electrical Engineering Department has four permanent faculty members while Mechanical Engineering has three faculty members. Mathematics department is the worst hit which has just one permanent faculty member. Physics has two while Chemistry three permanent faculty members. Principal of the college Dr. Sameru Sharma is head of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department despite not being a confirmed professor.
She is an Associate Professor and has six other faculty members to support her. Computer engineering has five permanent faculty members while Electrical Engineering Department has four permanent faculty members. There is no confirmed designation of Head of the Department (HOD) but seniormost faculty member owing to his experience and lack of competition from juniors has been enjoying this position since the day this college came into being.
The so-called custodians of Jammu have never bothered to even pay a cursory visit to this college and take up the issue with state Government for strengthening this engineering where majority of students get selected from Jammu region. The new campus of GCET, Jammu, has come up on an area of 869 kanals of land at Chak Bhalwal, Jammu, near Amb Ghrota which is 22-km away from the old University campus on the Canal road. |
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