By Sara D Benedicta Josna

Bengaluru: The colleges have nearly 4,00 students that includes 2,800 BE and 700 PhD students but has only 80 permanent teachers.

One of the country’s premiere institutions, the 105-year-old University Visvesvaraya is facing a severe shortage of permanent teaching staff where the college has nearly 4,000 students including 2,800 BE and 700 PhD students with only 80 permanent teachers. This is against the sanctioned strength of 139 teachers. It was found that the college hasn’t allotted any permanent teachers since 2007 and worked with the guest faculty all these years. The institution has only 35 non-teaching staff while the sanctioned posts are 203. “Again, the college is managing with contractual staff,” said an anonymous employee of the institution.

Sources from the Higher Education Department said UVCE Principal HN Ramesh recently wrote to the Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, about the staff crisis and stated that there are no qualified non-teaching staff in the laboratories.

It has been brought into notice that there have been issues with the infrastructure too, as students of the mechanical engineering department must use the lab facilities of other colleges as their department building collapsed in the year 2017. The estimation for the construction was at 85 crores while tenders too were floated. The finance committee of Bangalore University Syndicate approved the estimate later and was cleared by the state cabinet as well. But Bangalore University is delaying the works as UVCE is now autonomous, UVCE authorities allege.

Despite all these shortcomings, UVCE is doing well academically, and Principal HN Ramesh said that more than 150 companies recruited students last year. “98%percent of our students got jobs through campus recruitment…A few even got two to three job offers with salary packages varying between Rs. 10lakh and Rs. 30 lakh per annum. This is also because we have vocational training of 200 hours starting from the second semester and it helps candidates in campus interviews,” he added.

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