Private BEd colleges of Haryana told to submit appraisal report by January 29

Ravinder Saini

Rohtak, January 24

The directive of the National Council for Teachers Education for compulsory submission of the performance appraisal report (PAR) by January 29 has put self-financing BEd colleges across the state in trouble.

As per sources, majority of colleges do not have qualified staff for the BEd course. It is a mandatory condition in the PAR to mention details of the college faculty and their qualification. Now, colleges have approached the Centre for the extension of the last date for submission of the PAR and exemption in minimum qualification of teachers.

“There are more than 19,000 private BEd colleges across nation out of which 524 are in Haryana. Every college with 100 seats requires 16 teachers having minimum qualification of NET/PhD as per norms. Hence over 8,000 eligible teachers are needed for colleges in the state to fulfil demand. As the number of teachers, who are NET qualified and hold PhD degree, is less than 10 per cent, colleges are forced to hire MEd degree holders to run the Bed course,” said Satish Khola, president, All India Federation of Self-Financing Colleges.

“How can we appoint qualified faculty when candidates are unavailable? This is the main reason that colleges have not yet submitted their PAR and are waiting for some exemption in the qualification of faculty members. Besides the faculty, information about colleges’ infrastructure, students’ strength, audit report and facilities available are to be mentioned in the PAR,” Khola said.

He sais a delegation of colleges recently called upon Union Minister Bhupinder Yadav in Delhi and requested him to raising their demand before Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.