When caste reservation % is rising every year and at every possible pretext, a serious question is if infrastructure is being developed and improved at the same pace. The answer, sadly, is no. Politicians are all concerned only about making new vote banks and gaining more votes from the beneficiaries and the fact that increasing caste reservations are playing havoc on the quality of education does not appeal to them.
A recent news tells more about it:
Colleges ill-equipped to accommodate OBC quota | TNN Jun 18, 2013
The admission process for various undergraduate courses at Allahabad University and nine out of its 11 constituent colleges would be commencing in the next few weeks, and even as these colleges, barring AU, take in a fresh batch of students, the infrastructure has not been upgraded, especially when more students will be joining under implementation of OBC (other backward category) reservation.
Different constituent colleges of the AU were asked to raise the number of seats for undergraduate courses by 54%, but their authorities, faculties and students are struggling under dearth of fund and facilities required for the higher number of students.
These institutions, including nine degree colleges of the city, have not been sanctioned funds by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to enhance the infrastructure. The UGC sanctioned large amount of funds to the central universities for the purpose, but the constituent colleges under the Allahabad University’s umbrella received no funding.
The number of UG seats at AU before implementing OBC reservation was 3,445, but now it stands at 5,305 (an increase of 1,860 seats). Similar is the condition at other degree colleges wherein the number of seats (as per year the current academic year) would increase substantially. At Jagat Taran College, the new number of seats is 1,165 as against 747 in 2007; in Rajashri Tandon it is 451 from 293, at ADC it is around 3,066, at Ishwar Sharan around 1,863, at CMP around 4,281, at SS Khanna 1,201 from 780, at SPM Degree College 800 and at Arya Kanya Degree College the new number of seats is 1,119.
“There aren’t sufficient classrooms, laboratories, or libraries. The teacher taught ratio (TTR) will be affected adversely by the number of faculty positions and the infrastructure remains the same while student intake increases multifold”, said a principal of a constituent college of AU. “We are told that college authorities would be given separate grant by UGC, but in the last three years we have not received any funding for accommodating the theOBC grant,” he added.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-18/allahabad/40047625_1_ug-seats-arya-kanya-degree-college-au
This is really a sad state of affairs. Congress party which is spearheading this caste quota politics in order to divide Hindus on the lines of castes and to garner caste based vote banks, should wake up for the sake of the nation.
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