Kurukshetra University Teachers’ Association (KUTA) has opposed the move of the State Government to shift engineering colleges from Kurukshetra University to CRUST, Murthal.
The teacher body has criticised the decision as it would deteriorate the financial condition of the university.
Kurukshetra University Teachers’ Association president, Dr Sanjeev Sharma said Government decision would create a financial crisis in the university. He said Government had already decided to affiliate all BEd colleges to Ch Ranbir Singh University Jind. These moves of Government to shift engineering and BEd colleges from KUK to other universities would badly affect the quality of education as KUK being oldest university of the State had the largest experience to tackle problems of these colleges successfully.
He said there was resentment among colleges also because they were being shifted from an internationally known university to virtually unknown a newly established inexperienced universities without sufficient staff to look after their own affairs.
KUTA secretary Dr Mahabir Singh Ranga said KUK was being subjected to step motherly treatment by the Government for more than a decade. He said university facing a deficit of Rs 70crore and managing 75 per cent of budgetary requirement from it own sources. KUK is the mother of most of Haryana University as they have become universities after being the regional centres of KUK. Now the mother is being deprived of its minimum requirements.
KUTA has categorically demanded to restore the affiliation status of B.Ed and Engineering colleges with KUK and sufficient financial resources to meet its minimum requirements of imparting higher education and research.