Money collected for upgrade of aided colleges: AIMS
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 25 2021:
While alleging that the governing bodies (GBs) and heads of institution of some aided colleges under the state government are collecting money from teaching and non-teaching staff with the assurance of upgrading the colleges into full-fledged ones, Apunba Ireipakki Maheiroi Sinpanglup (AIMS) urged the government to look into the matter at the earliest.
In a release, AIMS president Shaikhom Premchand said that there are reports of collecting Rs 10-20 lakh from the teaching staff and Rs 5-10 lakh from the non-teaching staff.
Sadly, teachers who have been teaching even before the colleges were declared as aided but declined to pay the bribe money were not included in the final list submitted by the colleges to the government, he said, while adding that the GBs are creating posts of teachers more than the requisite number of teachers in a department.
AIMS met GBs and teachers of colleges to find out how such large numbers of teachers were recruited.
But the teachers failed to provide any answers to how and when the DPC was done, Premchand conveyed, while maintaining that some of the aided colleges which have excess teachers are issuing advertisement for recruitment of more teachers.
It is unfortunate that teachers who have been teaching in the college for more than 10-20 years are made to appear the DPC and were threatened to be dissociated from the colleges concerned if they fail in the DPC, he remarked.
Informing that a memorandum will be submitted to the state government in this regard, Premchand cautioned that AIMS will expose colleges which are indulging in wrongful activities.