1,040 AP teachers work in more than one college

Visakhapatnam: Several technical institutions are operating with fictitious of faculty. Teachers shown on the rolls of one college turn up at another college  pretending to be a faculty there as well during inspections carried out by the respective university or the All India Council of Technical Education. The council stipulates that a faculty of a technical institution cannot work simultaneously in two colleges. To stop this practice, the AICTE has begun updating faculty details of all technical institutions along with their PAN and Aadhaar card on its web portal. During this process, the AICTE found that about 1,040 teachers in the state were listed in more than in one technical institution. In Maharashtra, 2,452 duplicate faculty were exposed in 1,554 technical  institutions. Odisha has about 3.84 per cent duplicate faculty.

The statistics were provided in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament by minister of state of HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey. He was replying to a question raised by   Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath about the action taken by the Centre against private engineering colleges showing fictitious appointments. Dr Pandey said appropriate action was initiated against erring institutions as  prescribed in the Approval Process Hand-book, “which could include withdrawal of approval.”

After the AICTE made it mandatory for faculty in technical education institutions to provide Aadhaar and PAN data, about 33.85 per cent of teachers had submitted their Aadhar  details. The AICTE has PAN details of 73.91 per cent of faculty nationwide. An engineering college principal said many colleges show the requisite faculty to meet AICTE norms. “Many small colleges share faculty during inspections and to upload data in the AICTE website. The colleges somehow the details of the so-called surprise visits and arrange faculty beforehand,” he said.