Almost all self financing engineering in Kerala are in the verge of putting down shutters because of dearth of takers for engineering degrees. The prospects of engineering graduates are very bleak and those come out from low profile colleges lack the required standard and skill suited for any engineering works. However, these colleges can be advantageously converted into resort hotels or business establishments as profit making is the sole motto of self finance college managements.
In yesteryears the news papers were flooded with cinema advertisements. Now they are replaced ads of engineering colleges just for survival. The quality and standard of these colleges lie in advertisements only and not in actuality.
In most of the colleges little emphasis is given for academic eligibility and intellectual quality of students. The classes are run largely by guest lecturers with a meager salary. When uneducated laborers earn Rs 25000 or more in a month the guest lecturers with M Sc and M Tech in self financing colleges earn only Rs 10000 or less. The exploitation in this sector is embarrassing. Just for instance in the IHRD college in Cherthala, Physics and Chemistry subjects are handled by guest teachers since its inception and the earning per month by the teacher in Phyisics or Chemistry is below Rs 5000. If a permanent hand is appointed the salary will be eight times but the authorities will not appoint permanent teachers as profit making is the sole business.
Since minimum quality and intellectual level are not available for students coming out from most of the colleges, a few of them will soon close and only the fittest will survive. The students and their parents should be very vigil to select a college for future study in engineering courses.
- K A Solaman
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