NAGPUR UNIVERSITY :- NU stops admissions to 353 headless colleges

As decalred earlier, the Nagpur University late on Monday uploaded on its website the list of colleges that have not yet appointed full time principals. The university has published a list of 353 colleges and cautioned the students against taking admission in them. It includes many renowned colleges including those from Raisoni and Meghe groups.

The university has stopped their admission from the academic year (2010-2011) and asked them not to admit any student. The university has told them that if they admitted students without university’s permission, it would purely be their responsibility and they would have to face the consequences. Nagpur University vice-chancellor SN Pathan last Tuesday had announced that the list of colleges failing to appoint regular principals/lecturers would be published before June 7. With the list elusive for much of the day, Pathan said process was underway. Pressed further, he told

TOI to contact registrar for details. The acting registrar Debendranath Mishra was on a month-long leave and had handed over the charge to former board of college and university development (BCUD) director AD Chaudhari. Sources said, a majority of defaulting colleges belonged to politicians and other influential persons and therefore the university was under pressure not to release the names. In fact, the university officials were awaiting green signal from the government to release. It was finally released on website. While addressing the press on the eve of university’s 97th convocation, Pathan had declared that university would strictly abide by high court orders to take action against colleges that fail to appoint full time teaching staff before May 31.

He had also announced that a list of such institutions would be supplied to the media as directed by the HC. Reliable sources disclosed that university had indentified over 450 colleges who had not acted despite several warnings. As per the university’s statement, published by CBUD director (Acting) A M Khurad, the list was not exhaustive and subject to correction. Publishing the names was the first step to prevent ad-hocism in Maharashtra’s colleges which is severely affecting quality of higher education with students being the biggest sufferers.