CM allows recruitment of up to 2,000 assistant professors to colleges under Departments of Collegiate, Technical Education, says M. C. Sudhakar

Minister for Higher Education M.C. Sudhakar said connected Saturday that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allowed the recruitment of up to 2,000 adjunct professors to colleges nether the Departments of Collegiate and Technical Education and the teachers volition beryllium appointed against the vacancies based connected the request successful those colleges.

Speaking astatine a relation aft laying the instauration chromatic for constructing a caller hallway astatine Rukmini Shedthi National Memorial Government First Grade College and Centre for Postgraduate Studies astatine Barkur successful Udupi district, the Minister said that BCA, absorption and commerce courses are successful request present and arts and immoderate subject courses are not successful demand. Hence the request origin volition beryllium taken into relationship portion recruiting teachers.

The Minister said that the authorities volition widen its Apprenticeship-Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP) introduced successful 2024 to much colleges successful the coming years. The AEDP was extended to 68 colleges successful 2025 from 45 colleges successful 2024.

Employment- oriented 4 BCom grade programmes are offered nether AEDP. They are BCom successful retail, logistics, e-commerce and BFSI (banking, finance, service, and insurance). The students who person enrolled for the programmes acquisition apprenticeship grooming successful prime companies successful their 5th and sixth semesters of survey wherever each pupil volition get a monthly stipend of much than ₹8,000. The apprenticeship helps students to find jobs erstwhile completing their courses.

The Minister said that the authorities is making each efforts to streamline the world calendar of higher acquisition institutes which mislaid its way aft the pandemic. Efforts are connected to bring successful uniformity successful the world calendar.

Kundapur MLA Kiran Kumar Kodgi, who presided implicit the function, said that if the basal infrastructure required for authorities colleges is provided connected time, the fig of students volition increase. Only students from economically weaker sections enrol successful authorities colleges. Udupi territory is astatine the forefront successful the acquisition sector. Students from extracurricular the territory travel to the territory for education. There are incidents of students returning without getting seats successful authorities hostels successful the district, and the authorities should absorption connected constructing 2 hostels successful Kundapur limits, helium said. The aboriginal of students should beryllium protected by overcoming the shortage of impermanent lecturers. If the grants provided by the authorities are brought to the attraction of the MLAs, it volition beryllium easier to administer them connected priority, helium said.

Manjunath Bhandary, MLC was present.