GTU: 13 government engineering colleges colleges headless in Gujrat

Updated on: Friday, February 03, 2012

There is a lack of principals in technical colleges in Gujarat. GTU officials say of the 16 government engineering colleges in the state, only three colleges have full-time principals. The rest 13 are being run under in-charge principals.

The situation in self-financed colleges is equally alarming. Of the 92 self-financed colleges, the position of principals is vacant in 45 institutions. In 47 colleges that have principals, 15-odd colleges have principals who are above 65 years of age.

Rules stipulate that the age of principal in technical colleges should not be above 65 years. In fact, enquiries done by GTU revealed that 15-odd colleges had principals above this age. GTU has issued notices to these colleges to relieve principals who are above 65 years and recruit other candidates in their place.

Majority of the colleges have initiated the process to recruit principals and have also conducted interviews. However, GTU officials have found that many colleges had directly appointed their own candidates as principals without taking permission of GTU.

"It is mandatory to get the candidature of a principal cleared by GTU," said university officials.

Any candidate who is a professor and has completed 10 years of teaching can apply for the position of principal. Alternatively, teachers who are not professors but have 13 years of teaching experience can apply for the position.

Times of India

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