The Higher Education Department has increased number of seats for various courses in Government colleges by 1,668. Due to limited number of seats, the students have been facing problems in getting admission in graduation-level courses of subjects in Government colleges of the State.
Higher Education Department has increased the number of seats in 46 colleges of State, including Dudhadhari Bajrang Government Post Graduation Women’s College of Raipur district, Badri Prasad Government College Aarang, Government Post Graduation of Dhamtari district, Government College Bhakhara, Post Graduation Women’s College of Durg district, Digvijay Government Post Graduation College of Rajnandgaon district, Government lCS College Ambagarh Chowki, Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindhia Girls Government College of Kabeerdham (Kawardha) district, New Government College Pharasgaon in Kondagaon district, and government colleges of other districts as well.
This decision has benefitted many students of various courses including B.A., M.A., B.Sc., M.Sc., B.Com, M.Com, PGDCA and others. In the same sequence, Rs4.68 crore have been approved for construction of building for 21 new Government colleges, established in year 2013-14. This includes law College of Bhatapara, and colleges of Mainpur, Fingeshwar, Ramchandrapur, Jarhi, Mangchua, Jobi, Salhewara, Sarona, Tokapal, Navagarh, Farasgaon, Pipiriya and other areas.
The State Government has also decided to construct houses for faculty and staff of a total of 10 Government colleges in the tribal dominated and insurgency infested Bastar division. The Government has provided administrative approval for Rs7.32 crore for construction of a total of 100 houses for four categories of employees for the colleges. The houses will be constructed in Sukma, Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur,Antagarh districts.
last month State Higher Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey, while inaugurating the building of Government Polytechnic Institute in Mahasamund, announced that five new residential colleges would be opened in five cities of the State. “The State Government has come up with a scheme for promoting higher education and resources for youth in Chhattisgarh. Fifty per cent of seats in these colleges will be reserved for students from rural background,” he had stated.
The Minister also administered oath to student union of the Polytechnic Institute. Notably, the institute building has been completed at a cost of Rs9.97 crore. On an experimental basis, for the first time, the Chhattisgarh Government is going to establish residential colleges wherein all kind of facilities will be available for students, he said.
“We are paying special attention on higher education and very soon vacant posts of 966 assistant professors and 664 lecturers in Polytechnic colleges will be filled,” Pandey said, adding, the process for filling these posts has already been started. He informed that for providing employment oriented education to youths in all districts, State livelihood colleges have been established. Under this scheme, 25 colleges are functioning and 697 different trades have been identified where less educated youths will be provided training in their favourite trade.
Moreover, on February 24 this year, the Government announced that the Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) will construct houses for government employees in 146 block and nine new district headquarters at a project cost of Rs1,000 crore. The decision comes in wake of Chief Minister Raman Singh’s directions to the Revenue Department to take prompt action for solving the problem of housing for the Government employees in various district and block headquarters.
According to officials, Revenue Minister Prem Prakash Pandey told that his Department has issued circular to all the district collectors in this regard. In the circular it has been stated that the land should be allotted to CGHB as per demand and equivalent to the cost of construction of houses. Earlier, the land was allotted by an Inter-departmental Committee. However, according to the State Government’s decision, the allotment of land will now be done by a Committee of senior Secretaries, officials said.