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Over 100 mandals in TS sans degree colleges
The aim of transforming education landscape in rural and remote parts of the Telangana has remained a challenge for the government. Albeit, the rural Telangana has its nose ahead in numbers compared to the national figures, the reach of education especially at graduate and higher level has a lot of catching up to do.
Hyderabad: The aim of transforming education landscape in rural and remote parts of the Telangana has remained a challenge for the government. Albeit, the rural Telangana has its nose ahead in numbers compared to the national figures, the reach of education especially at graduate and higher level has a lot of catching up to do.
The fact is that the ratio of those passing through the primary, secondary, higher secondary and degree or above stages plummets at each level, from 14.65 per cent (primary) to 4.21 per cent (degree or above), indicating lack of educational provisions and meagre infrastructure in rural areas.
Of the 88.60 crore rural population in the country, only 3.05 crore people are graduates or higher at an average of 3.45 per cent, according to the rural data of the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC)-2011. This was despite the fact that the country stands third in the world after China and US in terms of boasting largest system of higher education.
Despite there has been a constant demand for establishing a degree college each in all 464 mandals, there are at least 137 mandals in the State without a college either run by the government or by the private managements.
Although the government had earlier contemplated to accord permissions to those interested private institutions for setting up of degree colleges in mandals where such facility was absent, but there were no takers. The private managements are of the opinion that it was difficult to run colleges without adequate student patronage.
Speaking to The Hans India, the Telangana State Council for Higher Education (TSCHE) chairman Prof. Tummala Papi Reddy said: “It appears that the chances are very bleak to set up degree colleges each in every mandal that don’t have a one.” In the recent meeting with the heads of universities, it was decided that not to issue notification for setting up of new colleges, he added.
“Deploring the standard of education in many existing private colleges, he said that efforts are on to give grading to colleges after conducting inspections,” Reddy said, stating that action would be taken against the non-performing colleges unless the managements raise the bar in imparting quality education.
According to sources, 29 mandals in Mahbubnagar district, 24 each in Medak and Nalgonda, 12 in Karimnagar, 11 in Adilabad, 10 each in Rangareddy and Warangal, nine in Nizamabad, and eight in Khammam have no degree college.
