The State Higher Education Department is conducting evening classes in as many as 23 Government degree colleges across the State. A total of 9,718 students had so far enrolled in various Bachelor degree courses in these Government colleges affiliated to Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University and Kumaon University. A total of 323 teachers are teaching in the evening classes. They were appointed through walk-in interviews held at district Collectorates in the State.
In these Government degree colleges, morning classes are also being held side by side on courses with affiliation from HNB Garhwal Central University for Garhwal division and from Kumaon University for Kumaon division, said the Higher Education Director Jagdish Prasad while talking to The Pioneer on Wednesday.
Prasad said that to accommodate Class XII passed students who aspire to complete higher education, the Government had allocated seats on various Bachelor degree courses for evening classes in various Government degree colleges affiliated to Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University and Kumaon University last year.
The Bachelor degree courses in nine Government degree colleges of Garhwal division are affiliated to Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand Univeristy while such courses in 14 Government degree colleges are affiliated to Kumaon University, he added. A committee headed by the District Magistrate in each district had selected on different dates last year the teachers among the applicants who had passed National Eligibility Test (NET) and State Eligibility Test and had expressed readiness to take evening classes in the Government degree colleges.
These teachers are being paid Rs250 per class for the evening classes. The selected retired teachers aged below 70 years are being paid the same as they had received when they retired, sans the pension amount, he added. Prasad further said that admission process for evening classes in these Government degree colleges being over, academic classes started from October 1, 2014, adding that the annual examination would be held as per schedule.