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Once highly revered for its world excellence, Osmania University has witnessed a systemic breakdown caused by its ain governance issues, too administrative, academic, and fiscal challenges.
The Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, for the twelvemonth ended March 2022, tabled connected March 30 (Thursday), raised respective specified concerns implicit the university’s declining standards and reputation.
According to the audit, cardinal governance bodies specified arsenic the Academic Senate and the College Development Council (CDC) failed to behaviour mandatory meetings, and hence captious decisions were delayed. The study besides noted inadequate practice successful the CDC and delays successful forming the Finance Committee, and non-reconstitution of Boards of Studies successful 36 departments.
The audit laid bare the university’s world functioning and noted that its 43 departments failed to revise their curricula. Moreover, respective of its affiliated colleges continued to run without accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Its shortage of module members lone grew.
While the recommended level of Faculty-Student Ratio astatine acquisition institutions is 1:15, it ranged betwixt 1:23 and 1:33 astatine Osmania University. Consequently, pupil outcomes excessively remained inconsistent. Placement rates fluctuated betwixt 26% and 54% successful caller years, and the lack of vocation and counselling cells successful respective colleges further compounded the issue, the study noted.
Pointing to its strategical planning, it said that its Vision Document prepared successful 2018 was not efficaciously implemented, and targets specified arsenic expanding planetary pupil enrolment were not achieved. Financial constraints, infrastructure deficiencies, and anemic probe output contributed to the university’s wide decline. Due to these issues, the university’s Overall National Institutional Ranking fell from 38 successful 2017 to 64 successful 2023. Moreover, its Overall University Ranking besides fell from 23 successful 2017 to 36 successful 2023.
The study further recommended that the university, with enactment from the State government, should guarantee that each administrative and world bodies are decently constituted and regularly reviewed. It should instrumentality short, medium, and semipermanent plans to execute its organization goals, prioritise accreditation and prime enhancement, and guarantee each affiliated institutions get accreditation wrong a specified timeframe. The assemblage should fortify interior assets generation, including collecting lease rentals, capable teaching and non-teaching vacancies, support capable infrastructure, and guarantee that each funds are utilised strictly for their intended purposes.
