Minister directs varsity to rationalize fee charged by
BEd colleges in Kashmir
JAMMU, DECEMBER 22: The Government has asked the
Kashmir University to hold combined examination for fifth and sixth
semester for under graduate courses in view of strong demand coming from the
students.
The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Minister for
Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari and attended by Principal Secretary
Higher Education, Dr Asgar Samoon and other officers here today.
It was informed that the university received the demand from the
students for holding the exams for 5th and 6th semester
together in June 2018 as they said that with this their time would be saved.
It is pertinent to mention here that this academic batch started
in July – August 2015 and shall be completed by July 2018.
The University after consulting with the college principals
passed a resolution and the government has agreed to the proposal.
The meeting observed that these students need to be admitted to
the post-graduate programmes in the academic year 2018-19 so that they have not
to compete for admission to post-graduate courses with the students of the
subsequent academic session (2016). This would make the total number of
applicants for post-graduate programmes of the University approximately to
70000 whereas the total number of seats available in all programmes is not more
than 4500.
Meanwhile, the Minister reviewed the functioning of Kashmir University. The
meeting was attended by V-C Kashmir University and other senior faculty.
The Minister discussed issues related to infrastructure development, faculty
and research work being done by the varsity, besides regulation of offsite
campuses and colleges affiliated to it,
The Minister called for the need of rationalizing the fee of BEd Colleges to
bring it at par with that charged by their counterparts in Jammu.
The Minister directed for immediate action in this regard
terming it as a great grievance of the aspirants of Kashmir region.
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