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| Academicians worried over delay in building infrastructure for two Cerntral Universities | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 20: Prominent academicians and senior faculty members of the Universities in Srinagar and Jammu re critical of the slow progress in the task of setting up central universities in the state which will affect adverse to the education sector.
Besides the academicians leader of the Panthers Party in the Assembly and working chairman, Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister for Education too has expressed surprise over the delay in setting up the campuses for the two universities especially when central universities in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Har yana, have made sufficient progress and achieved by way of building the infrastructure.
Harsh Dev Singh and others taking serious note of the issue said that since the state agencies were involved in the acquirement of land, construction of buildings and other activities for which the money had to come from the Union Ministry for Human Resources there is no reason for the delay in making the two universities functional from the campuses for which land has been acquired.
Harsh Dev Singh expressed deep concern over the wastage of money by the central universities authorities on paying rent for the buildings they had hired.
Citing the instance of Srinagar he said that instead of starting running the faculties in the prefabricated structures the central university had taken on rent two buildings for which it had to pay over Rs.2.50 lakhs as rent per month.
He and other academicians wanted the Government to identify people and the departments that were responsible for inordinate delay in acquiring land for in raising the buildings for the Central University Jammu (CUJ). These critics of inordinate delay in the building of infrastructure for the universities, wanted the agencies to hasten the process of developing the sites for the universities and of filling the vacant posts adding that emphasis be given to make the recruitment state based.
They suggested if senior faculty members from the universities of Kashmir and Jammu besides number of Government degree colleges were recruited on a priority basis the posts left vacant by their appointment to the two central universities could be filled from the educated youth within the state. |
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