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| ETT turns to be money minting machines in J&K | | |
Bashir Assad
srinagar, July 31: Jammu and Kashmir state particularly Jammu and Kathua districts have emerged as hub of Elementary Teacher Training (ETT) institutes with a number of ministers and leaders directly or indirectly running the institutions as money minting machines.
Official sources revealed Jammu and Kathua districts have got lion's share in the private education sector. Out of total 482 ETT institutes operating in the region, around 330 are in these two districts.
Sources said that most people including politicians prefer open ETT institutes in these two districts as agents have strong network in neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajashtan and Himachal Pradesh, where the demand for the course is high.
Among Big wigs include ministers, former ministers and many other high profiled leaders of the state who directly or indirectly are related to this education sector. Sources said that many politicians are allegedly running ETT Colleges in the name of their relatives for, this has turned as a 'gold mine' business in the state as the students of the neighboring states are also preferring the two districts as in most of such institutes attendance of the students is not pre-requirement for the examination.
Notwithstanding many shortcomings detected in most of Elementary Teachers Training (ETT) colleges by the government, opening new colleges continues rapidly and the authorities could not bring reforms owing to the pressure from the power corridors.
If the government data is taken into account, Jammu district alone has 177 ETTcolleges, and 159 ETT colleges in Kathua district.
A senior official wishing anonymity said that 70 per cent of the total ETT institutes, colleges in the state have been sanctioned for Jammu and Kathua districts alone and main reason is that there is well knit mafia which is working in connivance with agents in neighboring states thus earning huge profit during the admission period and politicians running ETT colleges are hand in glove with the agents.
"Each admission fetches Rs 5,000 to an agent and portion of this also reaches to some officials in the education department", said a source.
"Education has become a major money minting business in the state", an official said. He added that most of these institutes are being run by highly influential people with political backing.
Recently a detailed survey was conducted by BOSE which had revealed disturbing facts about the functioning of these institutions. Sources said that some private ETT institutes are running on fake addresses and about 100 institutes are without adequate infrastructure like building or faculty. |
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