Replying to the question of Akhtar-ul-Iman of RJD in the state Assembly on Tuesday the Human Resources Development minister, Prashant Kumar Shahi, conceded that half of 13,837 posts in colleges of universities of Bihar are lying vacant. Shahi said that the government is bringing the Bill in this very session in this regard.

The minister said that following the repeated orders of the Patna High Court the process of rationalization has been set in motion. The scheme has been sent to the Chancellor in December 2010, but the Raj Bhawan is yet to invite the principal secretary of the HRD in this regard.

Upon this Akhtar-ul-Iman asked as to why in this age of universalization of education the state government is undertaking rationalization. Where will those students who want to learn classical languages, such as Sanskrit, go after the government abolishes the post of Sanskrit teachers on the ground of less number of students in any given college. He asked as to who should be held responsible for 517 vacancies in Patna University, 637 in LNMU etc.

He charged that the primary education had already been destroyed by the state government and now the higher education is being targeted.

The Leader of Oppositiion in the state Assembly, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, intervened. He said that when the Nitish government came to power it abolished the University Service Commission and College Service Commission and constituted committees under vice chancellors for the purpose of appointment. But no appointment has been made till yet. Now the state government is once again talking of setting up a Commission for the sake of appointment.

Meanwhile, the state government accepted that there exists a large number of vacancies in the six engineering colleges of the state. Though the state has 446 posts in the six engineering colleges at present only 84 are filled. Fifty-six teachers of different polytechnics colleges are taking class in engineering colleges.

When Siddiqui and other members raised the issue as to how the teacher of -polytechnic teaching in the engineering colleges the minister replied that both the teachers of engineering colleges and polytechnic colleges hold equal qualification, that is B Sc (Engineering), therefore, they are capable of teaching the students.

The government, however, refused to accept that this big shortage of teachers is affecting the teachings in different engineering colleges of Bihar.

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