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FARIDKOT: As many as 47 nursing colleges in the state are facing the risk of losing affiliation to Baba Farid University of Health Services (BFUHS).



Balwant Garg

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, July 14

As many as 47 nursing colleges in the state are facing the risk of losing affiliation to Baba Farid University of Health Services (BFUHS).

These colleges have been unable to pay annual affiliation fee, inspection fee, endowment funds, annual administrative expenses fee and other expenses to the medical university in the past three years.

As repeated reminders to these colleges by the university failed in getting mandatory annual funds, the university has now made public the names of these defaulting colleges. The total outstanding fee/funds toward these colleges is more than Rs 4 crore.

Sources in the BFUHS said the state is facing an unusual situation with many nursing institutions. Of the 109 nursing colleges, many lack rudimentary infrastructure.

So, a large proportion of seats in these colleges are lying vacant, making the operation of these colleges economically unviable for private managements.

Of 109 nursing colleges, the BFUHS has identified 100, which are operating with many deficiencies, indicating that teaching programmes and other facilities in these colleges are inadequate, as per the norms of the Indian Nursing Council, New Delhi.

These colleges have deficiencies on account of less experience of principals and vice-principals, shortage of teaching faculty, not having permission letter from the affiliated hospitals for clinical experience of students, less number of books and journals in the libraries.

As many nursing colleges in the state have ghost teaching faculty and fake enrolment of students, students have stopped taking admissions to these colleges.

On an average, more than 50 per cent seats in the nursing colleges are lying vacant, said sources in the BFUHS.

For about 4,400 seats in 109 colleges, only 2,849 students had appeared for the Punjab Para Medical Entrance Test (PPMET-2018) conducted by the BFUHS last month.

The department of Medical Education and Research had relaxed the eligibility condition to fill maximum number of seats.

For less number of students in the nursing colleges and low earning, many colleges are on the verge of closure as they have failed in engaging the qualified staff and meet other expenses.

In a meeting with Minister for Medical Education Brahm Mohindra, representatives of nursing colleges had demanded to lower fees which they have to pay to the BFUHS.

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