Mou Chakraborty
Kolkata, April 13, 2007
There is good news for teachers. For the first time in its history, around 1,500 new posts for lecturers will be created in the colleges of Bengal.
“We are in the process of creating 1,500 new posts in the next two months. This will be the largest number of posts created by us since Independence,” higher education minister Sudarshan Roychoudhuri said at a conference organised by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industries.
Asked why the university needed to create so many posts, Roychoudhuri said: “The number of students all over the state is going up. So, we require more teachers to keep parity in the teacher-student ratio.”
The state will also get three new government colleges during the current financial year — one each in the Sunderbans and north Bengal and the third one in one of the western districts of the state.
The state will also get two state-aided universities, one each in north and south Bengal. The universities and the government colleges will ensure that the students in the remote districts have easy access to higher education.
The state has already urged the Centre to allot two central universities in Bengal. The Centre is already considering the proposal to set up a university in Jalpaiguri. The state may also get a second central university if the government decides to open a branch of Aligarh Muslim University in Murshidabad. A proposal in this regard has been sent to Delhi.
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