Twenty-two Moulana Azad Mannequin Faculties in Karnataka are beneath the federal government scanner due to low admissions. The low enrolment—fewer than 150 admissions in opposition to the sanctioned consumption of 300—was spotlighted after Opposition events cited a authorities order to allege a plan to close down the minority establishments.
The colleges had been conceptualised by the federal government in 2017 to enhance Urdu medium faculties and madrasas in addition to present high quality schooling and good infrastructure. The federal government sanctioned 100 such faculties in 2017-18 and 100 extra in 2018-19. As many as 39,000 class 6-10 college students are finding out in these faculties throughout the state.
Raghavendra T, director of the minority welfare division, denied any plan to close down the 22 faculties in the course of the educational 12 months. “The federal government listed a sequence of suggestions primarily based on our report concerning the state of MAM faculties. The low admission rely in 22 MAM faculties is due to a scarcity of lecturers, infrastructure-related points and lack of demand for such faculties, amongst different components. We’re working to develop the present faculties or relocate the scholars to colleges which have excessive demand,” he stated.
“With the low admission rely in some faculties, it isn’t possible to nominate everlasting lecturers there. So we’re engaged on an answer to minimize the burden on the exchequer by planning to relocate the scholars of 5 or 6 of the 22 faculties to districts the place there may be extra demand for minority establishments,” he stated.
5 – 6 of the 22 faculties are in Bengaluru, whereas others are in Kalaburgi, Koppal and Yadgir, amongst different districts. Raghavendra stated the division was exploring methods to extend the demand for such faculties. In keeping with division officers, the price for working such faculties is round Rs 100 crore.
The division has additionally requested the federal government to double the instructing posts within the 200 faculties to 1,600. Although 600 lecturers had been recruited this 12 months, solely 380 of them joined. A few of them have sought transfers or utilized for Karnataka Administrative Providers posts. Consequently, solely 89 faculties have everlasting headmasters and lecturers and the remaining have visitor lecturers.
In addition to, the division, which additionally runs 134 Morarji Desai Residential Faculties, has recognized 31 faculties in each district to be affiliated to the CBSE.