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Colleges suffer while coaching centers thrive
WITH THE start of the new academic session, while the coaching centers are bustling with activity, in contrast intermediate colleges are wearing a deserted look. Most of the students, after registration in colleges, have joined coaching institutes.
WITH THE start of the new academic session, while the coaching centers are bustling with activity, in contrast intermediate colleges are wearing a deserted look. Most of the students, after registration in colleges, have joined coaching institutes.
There are 226 intermediate colleges in the district including five government and 117 government aided inter colleges. Besides, there are 104 unaided intermediate colleges running in the district. The total strength of registered students in these colleges is around 1.75 lakh. However, with the exception of a few colleges including MG Inter College, Government Jubilee Inter College, MSI Inter College, Imambara Girls Inter College and AD Girls Inter College where the attendance of students is around 70 per cent, other colleges record attendance between 15 to 20 per cent.
When contacted, principals of these colleges admitted that after registration the students did not attend classes. Instead, they preferred to join coaching centres and took tuition. After registration, they normally came to the college at the time of filling of examination forms and getting the admit cards.
Interestingly, a week earlier district inspector of school Ramagya Kumar, has directed the principals of inter colleges not to register students more than the college’s capacity.
He also directed the principals to take stringent action against those who did not turn up after registration of their names.
Sources said only MG Inter College had implemented the order and had cancelled the names of the students who remained absent without formal information.
However, it was alleged that teachers in intermediate colleges were inviting students to join coaching centres run by them in fake names. Though the State government had directed the education officials to take stringent action against the coaching centers, sources said the orders were confined to files only.
