Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU)has freezed admissions to first year of various courses in 39 colleges affiliated to it. The university has appealed the students not to seek admission in these colleges for the listed courses.
The admissions have been stopped on the ground that there is no regular teacher for those courses. Majority of the courses were being run with the help of temporary teachers, as there was no grant for these courses.
The notification freezing admissions was issued by the university on Saturday and include several reputed colleges including
- LAD and SRP
- Dhanwate National College
- SFS College, C P and Berar
- R S Mundle Dharampeth Arts, Commerce College
- Smt Binzani Mahavidayala
- MSS Institute of Social Work
- Madhukar Wasnik PWS College
- Santaji Mahavidyalaya
- YCCE
- Annasaheb Gundewar College
- Priyadarshini Lokmanya Tilak College of Management Studies
- Central India Institute of Mass Communication
- Dr Ambedkar Institute of Management Studies, Deekshabhoomi
The action, although is considered strict one by the university, it has also raised eyebrows of academicians who have been managing these colleges for several decades. Earlier, the university had withdrawn affiliation of 98 colleges for failing to apply for it; 29 colleges for not finalising Local Enquiry Committee and freezed admissions at 82 colleges for lack of teaching and non-teaching staff.
The RTMNU has not been able to process applications seeking permission for recruitment for over one year, the action by the university authorities has surprised many. The university itself has not been able to appoint teachers for its departments and conducted colleges.
At a stroke admission to 12 courses at Dhanwate National College, ten at C P and Berar; 13 at Arts and Commerce College, Pulgaon, Wardha; 32 at New Arts, Commerce and Science College, Wardha have been closed.
The college managements find themselves helpless, as the recruitment has been banned by the Government.
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The changes were not welcomed by all but will seep into the regular in a few months down the road. Such social disapproval is also faced by the Nagpur metro project. Recently there has been a lot of fuss about whether Nagpur needs a metro or not. The discussions over metro rail have taken peaks in recent times because people are frustrated of the inconvenience the development of the project is causing in daily traffic. Trucks loaded with heave materials blocking the road, people waiting for hours for the road to get cleared, heavy machineries drilling into the ground and creating irritating noises the whole day long have made people angry and sceptical about the Project .The development of this project has also caused a lot of dust on roads, air pollution and in some cases people have even lost their business.
generate revenues around 5200cr (aprox). Project is expected to add around 12 million people to the city’s population by means of direct or indirect employment and with this growing economic activity its necessary to plan the infrastructure development so as to support the growth of the city. In addition to the above invested mind boggling figures the vehicle ownership of the city is 84% which leads to traffic congestion in peak hours and hence, the travel time of the commuter increases significantly. This astonishing number of ownership means that much strain on the already scarce fossil fuels.
