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Polytechnic teachers losing chance to upgrade skills
As the State government is not sponsoring the polytechnic lecturers for the most advanced annual “Quality Improvement Programme” (QIP) being offered by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), good number of the State government polytechnic lecturers are losing opportunity to upgrade their skills.
Visakhapatnam: As the State government is not sponsoring the polytechnic lecturers for the most advanced annual “Quality Improvement Programme” (QIP) being offered by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), good number of the State government polytechnic lecturers are losing opportunity to upgrade their skills.
Since 2014, the State government is not sending the lecturers for the most advanced training, for which thousands of lecturers across the country are in queue. The AICTE launched the QIP about 17 years ago in the country to improve the overall quality of technical education to diploma level technical institutions.
The programme is being conducted in institutions where the facilities, infrastructure and the faculty are of international standards and it would provide the teachers an opportunity to get involved in an environment of sophisticated research and development activities.
The programme eventually leads to building quality infrastructure and improve the standard of technical education at parent polytechnics. The programme is being conducted in 10 institutions including ABIIITM, Gwalior, Jadavpur University of Kolkata, MNNIT of Allahabad, MBM Engineering Colleege of Jodhpur, MNIT of Jaipur, NIT of Durgapur, NIT of Calicut, NITK of Surathkal and NIT Tiruchirapalli and NITTTR, Chandigarh.
The AICTE has been prescribing higher qualifications for promotion to higher cadres like Head of the Department and Principal of Polytechnics. Further, in the various pay revisions, AICTE has been prescribing different periods of service under career advancement scheme for teachers having B.Tech, MA, MSc to that of teachers having M.Tech and Phd.
As the AICTE is offering just 100 seats per year, there is a massive demand across the country. The State governments have been giving permissions to send their lecturers to the QIP programme while paying them full pay and allowances.
The Department of Technical Education, AP, is also willing to send the lecturers to the programme and sending the list of candidates to the finance department for approval. However, the finance department is not giving approvals, since 2014.
Even, if a teacher is willing to proceed on leave to join in the programme, the State government is not willing to relieve the staff with full pay and allowances. The State government is not relieving them in the name of shortage of teaching staff.
Meanwhile, All India Federation of a Polytechnic Teachers Organisations (AIFPTO) urged the AICTE to increase the number of seats of QIP. “Because of the non-cooperation of the State government, many teachers are being denied promotion to higher cadres and timely awards of Career Advanced Scheme (CAS).
This is causing a lot of frustration among the teachers which is leading to their poor performance in the Institutions,” National President of AIFPTO Dr N Chandra Sekhar told The Hans India.
By V K L Gayatri
