Indore : You try and search the websites of colleges in Indore division to know about facilities, infrastructure etc available on the campuses but in most cases you will land up nowhere.
Though it is mandatory for all the institutes of higher learning to have their own respective websites, many colleges under the Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) are reluctant to form web pages.
Reason?
They want to keep abysmal conditions on their respective campuses concealed and making a website will spoil that purpose, hitting their businesses to a large extent.
So more than 100 colleges out of 275 affiliated to the DAVV, especially teacher education colleges, have not made web pages.
“Several colleges do not have requisite facilities, infrastructure, computer labs, equipped libraries, playgrounds and above all qualified and competent teachers. It is mandatory to put these details in public domain. When you don’t have a website, these details remained concealed, it’s as easy as that,” said Dr SM Anas Iqbal, director (academics), Vishisht School of Management.
As per regulations of the University Grants Commission (UGC), a higher education regulator, all the institutions of higher learning got to have websites carrying information related to teaching staff profile, facilities, infrastructure, admission procedure, placements etc.
Universities are responsible for ensuring that institutes affiliated to them make website and upload all the above-mentioned details on it.
So why is the DAVV not implementing this UGC regulation in letter and spirit?
“We are trying our level best to ensure that colleges form their websites. To an extent we have succeed in making them to form websites but the fact remains that more has to be done by the university in this direction,” said Prof Sumant Katiyal, director of college development council at DAVV.
He said that the university would ensure that all the colleges make their websites by the upcoming session.
As per him, most of the colleges are shying away from making website as they do not have qualified teachers.
“Every college is required to upload profiles of their teachers on website. At the time of admissions, institutes parade teachers from other colleges and when the admissions get over students never get to see those teachers on their campus. This corrupt practice will stop when colleges make websites and upload profile of their teachers on it,” Katiyal said.
There are a few colleges who have websites but information on teachers with them is missing from their sites.
