With over 62 per cent seats government engineering colleges finding no takers, the state government informed the Assembly that there was no proposal to open any new engineering college in Uttar Pradesh.
“Seat occupation in the existing engineering colleges in the state is very poor and 62 per cent of the seats remain vacant. We will strictly implement AICTE norms to improve quality of the education,” said Technical Education minister Ashutosh Tandon during Question Hour.
The minister said that to improve the faculty in these engineering colleges, the government has appointed 280 teachers during the last one year besides Rs 200 crores havebeen provided to strengthen the infrastructure of these colleges.
Tandon admitted that the government has received complaints about one faculty member teaching in several engineering colleges and therefore the teaching faulty has been linked with Aadhar to end corruption.
However, SP member Sanjay Garg alleged that poor placement from these colleges was the reason behind vacant seats in state colleges. “Since placement in these state colleges is not good students from UP prefer to join engineering colleges outside the state,” Umashanker Singh (BSP) said.
Meanwhile, to another question, Panchayati Raj minister Bhupendra Chaudhary admitted that only 50 per cent of toilets have been constructed so far against the target of 70.86 lakh in this fiscal. He said that so far only 36.35 lakh toilets have been constructed and the target will be achieved by October 2018.
To another question, Primary Education minister Anupuma Jaiswal said that the transition percentage of students from primary (class- 5) to high primary (class-6) is 79.76 per cent which is around 10 per cent less than the national average of 90.1 per cent.
She said that during the last one year, the government has increased enrollment in primary schools by 2 lakh.