Write a speech on
“Maharashtra Lack Quality
Education”, based on the given
points.
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Answer:
Poverty. Many studies have shown that poverty and a lack of education are strongly positively correlated. Since poor families may not be able to send their kids to school, these children may suffer from significant educational inequality.
In 1983, Maharashtra decided to follow the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh model by allowing private sector to set up. Since then, the state has seen the numbers of engineering graduates increase almost 35 times, from 1,600 in 1983 to 56,600 today. The huge pool of trained manpower created by these private educational institutes has helped in attracting industry, giving the state her pre-eminence as an industrialised state.
A lack of qualified teaching faculty is the biggest problem facing engineering colleges, which directly reflects in the quality of the engineers produced. There are not enough PhD holders to be appointed as faculty. “We do not have sufficient PhD holders in engineering.
The available teaching faculty is also not willing to teach because of our salary levels, since Rs 3 lakh annually cannot match what the industry offers,” said Association of Managements of Private Engineering Colleges of Maharashtra president Balasaheb Wagh. All India Federation of Regional Engineering Associations president Malakond Reddy estimated that where we need about 20,000 PhDs, we have only about 7,000.
Admission and fees are two more vexed issues. According to a Supreme Court ruling, the state has to have a committee to decide on fees for professional courses. This committee takes so long to declare the fees that the academic year ends and then they declare the fees.
Students, who pay a provisional fee at the beginning of the academic year with an undertaking to pay the difference once the final fee is declared, have no idea how much they will eventually have to shell out. Unexpectedly high differences have given rise to unrest on campuses.
The annual fee for an engineering degree course now ranges between Rs 35,000 to Rs 80,000. While the increasing fee structure raises questions of accessibility to professional education for deserving but poor students, the institutes complain that the fees they are allowed to collect are so meagre that they cannot maintain the standards specified by The All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), the central regulator for technical education. Consequently, AICTE is withdrawing approval of several institutes, particularly management institutes.
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