The Punjab Government has decided to transfer the non-performing principals of its polytechnic colleges.
Announcing this, the state’s Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that the performance of the entire staff of polytechnic colleges would be monitored regularly to improve the standard of technical education in the government Polytechnic colleges of the state.
He said that a decision has been taken to constitute a three-member committee for strengthening the overall system of the government polytechnic colleges. One member each from Maharaja Ranjit Singh University Bathinda, PTU Jalandhar and Technical Education Board would be part of the committee, he said.
Channi said that the committee would soon visit all government Polytechnic colleges and submit a detailed report about the infrastructure development, upgradation of courses and other requirements.
Clear cut instructions were also issued that only the courses, which are suitable for employment as per needs of the present and future, would run in the government institutes. He also informed that outdated courses would be closed.
In another important decision, Channi announced to change the non-performing principals of the Polytechnic Colleges. It has also been decided to attach the performance of the entire staff and lecturers of Technical Education Department with annual confidential reports (ACRs). As per the decision, increments in pay and promotions would be based on be performance.
Channi said that the deployment staff in the Technical Education Department would be restructured and rationalized. Apart from this, he said that practice of different cadres would be put into end and there would be only one cadre in the department.
He has directed the Heads of the Colleges to ensure 100 percent admission and results. It was also decided to fix responsibility of the non-performers.He further said that the teachers of the polytechnic colleges would adopt students and that particular teacher would be responsible for the performance of the adopted students.
The Technical Education Minister directed to implement the biometric attendance system within a month and asked the heads of colleges to purchase the bio-metric attendance equipments at their level as per norms laid by the Government.