Higher Education Department

To register their protest against the government’s delay in implementing its decision to give cent percent block grant to 488 junior colleges and 265 other colleges, both the left out teaching and non-teaching staff of these institutions has announced that they will gherao the Directorate of Higher Education on December 9. 

Government college and university teachers in Madhya Pradesh are all set to get the long overdue UGC pay scales. In order to foot the bill incurred on the increased pay scales of these teachers, the state government has demanded Rs 484 crore from the University Grants Commission (UGC).

The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to carry out inspection of the engineering colleges in the state with two academic years’ background. Some of these colleges, which managed to get AICTE sanction, are accused of functioning without basic infrastructure.