Jan 2 — A majority of the colleges affiliated to Panjab University did not deposit the minimum amount underlined by a university regulation for running Bachelor of Computer Application and Bachelor of Business Administration courses.To begin with, each college was required to deposit Rs 5 lakh by way of security for each course. The issue came up for discussions at various meetings of the university bodies. Nothing significant has occurred on the front of colleges depositing the endowment funds (FDRs) .
Interestingly, this time as many as 42 colleges have been granted extension of affiliation in time for running various courses in the forthcoming academic session. At least 18 colleges offer Bachelor of Computer Application course.
These include Dashmesh Girls College, Badal, Saini Bar College, Bulhowal, GTB Khalsa College, Dasuya, DAV College for women, Ferozepore, Guru Nanak College Ferozepore Cantt, Dev Samaj College, Ferozepore, BAM Khalsa College, Garhshanker, DAV College for Girls, Hoshiarpur, SD College, Hoshiarpur, DAV College, Hoshiarpur, GGS Khalsa College for Women, Kotkapura, Guru Nanak College Killianwala, Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Ludhiana, Guru Nanak Girls College, Model Town, Ludhiana, DAV College, Malout, SD College for Women, Moga, DM College, Moga and Mai Bhago College for Women, Ramgarh.
Nearly a dozen colleges have applied for the Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application. The affiliation for the Bachelor of Business Administration is on the decline with just a couple odd applying for extension.
A university committee was constituted to study the matter as the principals were being provided avenues for payments to teachers in need of an emergency which asked for giving FDRs to the university before giving affiliation.
This is done to ensure salary to teachers even in case the course faces a student shortage and the staff has to be paid. A committee was constituted to study the matter where the principals are reported to have said to pay the sum in three instalments.
In a subsequent meeting, a Principal is reported to have said that the new courses were a part of the existing courses (arts and science streams) already in circuit and needed no special payments to be made.
The courses needed funding as a security for teachers because certain courses particularly in the rural belt were already facing threat.
A senior fellow said that it was interesting that there had been a ‘poor survey of the status of faculty engaged on job for the courses’. If there was trouble in the existing conditions, it would be interesting to find how colleges manage to update their courses as BCA ( honours) which was announced following a student and parent agitation recently.
