Governor Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday instructed to constitute fee fixation committee to regulate course fee structure to maintain transparency, equality and to keep a check on fees charged annually from each student. The imbalanced course fees structure for BEd course and other subjects at different colleges is a matter of concern and needs immediate attention. All colleges must constitute a fee fixation committee to address this issue, said Governor, Draupadi Murmu while conducting a review meeting with the Vice-Chancellors of all the State Universities and other officials.
The Governor in the review meeting instructed the VCs to ensure proper electrification at each affiliated and constituent college for carrying out different activities. “Proper electricity supply must be ensured at every college. All libraries at respective colleges must be equipped with Wi-Fi facility. Besides, it is the responsibility of VCs to install biometric attendance in each college to ensure the presence of teaching faculty and other college staffs during the duty hours,” added Governor.
laying emphasis on ‘Cashless Transaction’ schemes, the Governor during the meeting, ordered to all the officials to promote different modes of ‘Cashless Transaction’ payment schemes among the college staffs and students as well.
The Governor said that all minority colleges under different State owned universities must submit a detailed report to the department of Higher and Technical Education about the promotion, arrears and pension schemes given to faculty members and other staffs. “All the teaching faculty and staffs associated with minority institutions must get the benefit of promotion, pension etc. Here all the minority institutions must highlight both gazette and non-gazette posts of its staff in the draft,” Governor, said.
The Governor has asked all the VCs to encourage principals of all its affiliated colleges under their respective varsities to go for NAAC accreditation. To promote tribal language and different culture among the students and city residents, Governor have asked Ranchi University (RU) VC, Dr. RK Pandey to develop Department of Tribal language as the centre of excellence with all essential facilities at earliest making all necessary development.
For students’ safety, Governor asked the officials to adopt different measures for imparting education in safe environment. “All colleges must include moral value education in its curriculum. It is the responsibility of colleges to ensure that hostels must have wardens, attendants and the record of all hostel students must be maintained. looking at the safety perspective colleges should tie-up with the nearby local hospitals to meet the emergency cases as well,” added Governor.
During the meeting and in the presence of officials, Governor expressed happiness over the placement record of RU where 5000 students from different streams have been hired by different corporate houses through campus recruitment procedure this year. Governor on the occasion asked the RU VC to upload the details of students selected in campus placement on the official website of the varsity.