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| J&K yet to identify areas for new colleges, polytechnic | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR : Assuring that all colleges in Jammu and Kashmir would be provided adequate infrastructure and teaching staff, Minister for Higher Education Abdul Gani Malik, however, said that areas for new degree and polytechnic colleges are yet to be identified.
The Centre has sanctioned 11 degree and 18 polytechnic colleges for the districts which are not covered at present, Mr Malik informed the Legislative Assembly in reply to a clubbed question of Sardar Rafiq Hussain Khan, Syed Bashir Ahmad, Jugal Kishore, Vikar Rasool, Mehbooba Mufti and Mushtaq Ahmad Shah.
The Minister admitted that some of the colleges are functioning without adequate infrastructure and teaching staff.
We are on it and making all out efforts to provide better infrastructure and teaching staff to all colleges, he said.However, all the members who had asked questions expressed dissatisfaction with the answer given by Mr Malik and wanted ''yes or no'' from the Minister if any degree or polytechnic college was being opened in their areas.
The Minister informed the house that Government will conduct survey of entire state before taking a final decision about the areas where these colleges would be opened.
Mr Bashir and Mr Jugal alleged that students, including women, had to travel 50 to 150 km to reach nearest colleges.
Mr Jugal contested the written answer to his question that a good number of colleges are available in and around Jammu city which are at a reasonable distance from Nagrota, the constituency of the member.
Nagrota constituency is not Nagrota town, Mr Jugal said adding some areas are 150 km away from Jammu,
However, on this Bhartiya Janata party (BJP) member Prof Chaman Lal Gupta demanded that pressure on the Jammu colleges should be reduced by opening new colleges in the suburbs.
Mr Shah said that a degree college opened at Tral 20 years ago still has not science and commerce subjects with the result the students of this area had to get admission in Srinagar colleges.
However, the Minister assured the member, he will see that science and commerce subjects are introduced as soon as possible in the college.
The Communist Party of India (M) member Mohammad Yousuf Targami demanded that a polytechnic college should be opened at all district headquarters in the State.
Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone intervened and asked the members to keep the population under control when a ruling National Conference (NC) member Peer Afaq Ahmad said that colleges should be opened as per population of that area.
Donot increase population, Mr Lone said.
Replying to supplimentaries the Minister said that areas which have no colleges will be given priority.
However, the Minister said the Government has already established 36 new degree colleges which are in the process of consolidation.
Additional colleges will be considered only after the infrastructure is completed in already established colleges in the State.
The Minister made it clear that there is no proposal to open new degree colleges in the state except the colleges sanctioned by the Minister of Human Resources Development (MHRD) for backward areas.
To a separate question asked by a NC member Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan the Minister Mr Malik assured that commerce subjects will be introduced in degree college, Handwara.
The Minister said the college has seven regular lecturers and 39 have been engaged on consolidated salary.
He said the posts of lecturers have been referred to recruitment agencies to select the candidates.
However, Mr Ramzan alleged that there was no adequate infrastructure, including class rooms, playing field, conference hall in the college.
The Minster informed the House that the college was functioning in eight class rooms while six more are being added.
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