Hyderabad: While the Telangana state government has assured the Union HRD ministry and the University Grants Commission (UGC) of implementing the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), it has done little till date.
With no facilitating role from the government, varsities are left at sea and say the government is taking little interest in implementing the grading scheme. Universities are now planning to hold a workshop themselves to discuss the nitty-gritties of the CBCS and the ways to go about it.
A three-member committee was formed by the government to study the implementation of the CBCS. The committee submitted its report last month to the government but no follow up meetings have been held either by the government or the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) to discuss the CBCS.
Varsities are meanwhile annoyed with the government not taking the implementation of the CBCS seriously. Bigger varsities like Osmania and Kakatiya are equipped to implement the system by themselves but the remaining smaller universities are left in a lurch.
“This is a key administrative reform and CBCS has to be implemented for this academic year at any cost. But the government has done absolutely nothing till date. They are not interested at all,” an Osmania University official said.
Not one meeting has been held by the state government or the TSCHE on CBCS. The TSCHE, on its part, has been hiding behind the garb of Eamcet preparations.
The UGC held a workshop for universities across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka recently at the University of Hyderabad. The UGC also recently released its guidelines for the CBCS with the number of credits ideally required for each subject across 18 disciplines of undergraduate study.
It has also said that fluctuating workload of teachers, requirement of proper infrastructure and difficulty in estimating exact marks of students may be disadvantages in implementing the scheme.
It is now learnt that other varsities in the state are seeking guidance from the OU on implementing the grading scheme.
“The government should be a facilitator in such a massive shift in academic structure. But they are least bothered. No meeting has been held till date. They have not even opened the report on CBCS given by the committee,” a senior faculty member of the Kakatiya University said.
