Updated on: Monday, April 09, 2012
About 30 private engineering colleges affiliated to the Anna University of Technology, Chennai, which has 140 such colleges affiliated to it, lack adequate faculty.
On initiating action against colleges that do not conform to university norms, the university said that the compliance reports submitted by colleges were under scrutiny and decisions on granting affiliation would be taken on the basis of the outcome.
The university had provided affiliation reports (2011-12 academic year) of all private engineering colleges affiliated to it.
University sources said faculty shortage, especially the lack of quality faculty, had become a perennial problem. Colleges do not provide a conducive environment for teachers to work as they are paid a meagre salary, they said.
Former Anna University vice-chancellor and state planning commission member Prof. E. Balagurusamy said that there had always been a gap between demand and supply.
“As many as 20 per cent of the colleges do not have faculty. This is a problem not only in Tamil Nadu but all across the country and we need to produce more M.E and Ph.D graduates to address the issue,” he said.
Balagurusamy said that even the Indian Institutes of Technology faced the same problem, adding that the Union planning commission had envisioned producing 5,000 Ph.D and 10,000 M.E. graduates. “Teaching has become the last resort for people,” he said.