State brings 14 of 41 constituent colleges under it
Move To Ease Fin Burden Of Govt Varsities
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:03.03.2019
Eight months after an announcement by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, the state government has passed orders for converting 14 of the total 41 constituent arts and science colleges under the director of college education (DCE) into government colleges. These include four of the 10 constituent colleges managed by Bharathidasan University (BDU) which is the largest among state-run universities.
The conversion, which would be undertaken in three phases, is being done to ease the financial burden on staterun universities in managing these colleges. For instance, Bharathidasan University which runs 10 such colleges must spend more than ₹7 crore a year to run them. The concept of constituent colleges had emerged to meet the demand for arts and science colleges after the state government took a policy decision not to start any more government arts colleges. However, that in effect proved to be a burden for the state-run universities.
It was to relieve the universities of this burden and enable them to focus on research that the government decided to convert them into government arts colleges. The announcement in this regard was also made in the assembly by the chief minister. Earlier, it was estimated that the government would have to spend ₹152 crore every year towards these colleges. But a detailed account on the total number of staff took the total spending up to more than ₹168 crore.
Observing that conversion of these colleges at one stretch would cause huge financial burden on the state government, it has now been decided to convert them in a phased manner, the GO said. Constituent college at Lalgudi in Trichy, apart from one each in Perambalur, Thanjavur and Pudukottai districts will be converted in the first phase in the central region.
Terming the order as a relief as the matter has been pending from June last year, BDU vice-chancellor P Manisankar said they were expecting some more clarification on various aspects of the order.
ONE AT A TIME:Converting all colleges at one go would incur a huge loss and the state plans to do it in phases
Move To Ease Fin Burden Of Govt Varsities
Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Trichy:03.03.2019
Eight months after an announcement by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, the state government has passed orders for converting 14 of the total 41 constituent arts and science colleges under the director of college education (DCE) into government colleges. These include four of the 10 constituent colleges managed by Bharathidasan University (BDU) which is the largest among state-run universities.
The conversion, which would be undertaken in three phases, is being done to ease the financial burden on staterun universities in managing these colleges. For instance, Bharathidasan University which runs 10 such colleges must spend more than ₹7 crore a year to run them. The concept of constituent colleges had emerged to meet the demand for arts and science colleges after the state government took a policy decision not to start any more government arts colleges. However, that in effect proved to be a burden for the state-run universities.
It was to relieve the universities of this burden and enable them to focus on research that the government decided to convert them into government arts colleges. The announcement in this regard was also made in the assembly by the chief minister. Earlier, it was estimated that the government would have to spend ₹152 crore every year towards these colleges. But a detailed account on the total number of staff took the total spending up to more than ₹168 crore.
Observing that conversion of these colleges at one stretch would cause huge financial burden on the state government, it has now been decided to convert them in a phased manner, the GO said. Constituent college at Lalgudi in Trichy, apart from one each in Perambalur, Thanjavur and Pudukottai districts will be converted in the first phase in the central region.
Terming the order as a relief as the matter has been pending from June last year, BDU vice-chancellor P Manisankar said they were expecting some more clarification on various aspects of the order.
ONE AT A TIME:Converting all colleges at one go would incur a huge loss and the state plans to do it in phases
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