Will Agra University’s new VC succeed in arresting rot?

Agra, Oct 3 (IANS) Finally, Agra University has a new full time Vice Chancellor. But the query doing rounds in instructional circles is whether the brand new Vice Chancellor Prof Ashu Rani, former head of the Chemistry Department of Kota University in Rajasthan, might achieve success in arresting the rotten stink of decades of mismanagement and forget about.

After an inspection of the college last week, UP Governor Anandi Ben Patel appointed Prof Ashu Rani for three years.

For beyond several years, Agra University was being casually run by acting vice chancellors, from other universities, regardless of the reality that a local BJP legislator become made minister of better education by way of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Prof Ashu Rani has promised to repair the misplaced status and glory of Agra University, now known as Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, founded in 1927.

The college had given Presidents (Ram Nath Kovind and Shankar Dayal Sharma), 3 Prime Ministers (Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Gulzari Lal Nanda and Choudhary Charan Singh) and Chief Ministers (Kalyan Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav). Ajit Doval is likewise an ex-pupil of Agra University. Meerut, Jhansi, Bareilly, Jaunpur and Kanpur universities had been carved out of it.

For beyond two decades, the college has continued to stay in news for all the incorrect reasons — mismanagement, bungling, cheating, forged ranges and examination backlogs.

“Students are not drawn to this college, which is obvious from the seats going vacant in such a lot of guides. The proceedings graph never gets shorter,” stated Sudhier Gupta, a former student. The future of lakhs of college students become at the stake as the kingdom authorities had did not take remedial measures, he brought.

Once a excellent college that produced a move of intellectuals and academics who went on to impart their excellence to different academic institutions, the university today provides a picture of chaos and aimlessness.

Corruption and inefficiency have weakened its basis. In the past decade, the university couldn’t boast of any achievement either in sports or studies, however for corruption. The sanctity of the exam machine has been destroyed and mark-sheets are for sale, allege students.

When all other universities within the us of a were adapting to new contexts and gearing up for new profiles, why Ambedkar University’s ship was sinking and stinking, puzzled a student.

For one, the dimensions of the college has emerge as unwieldy. With more than a thousand affiliated faculties and nearly eight,00,000 college students, plus a dozen residential institutes which have emerge as hot spots of dirty politics, no captain could have the ability to persuade the ship out of gift rot, is the not unusual refrain.

Teachers say it’s been cautioned numerous instances that the college be cut up into three if not four. Some colleges need to be promoted as centres of excellence and given self sufficient popularity. The Raja Balwant Singh College, Asia’s largest university in terms of vicinity, itself ought to become a college. Three colleges, St John’s College, Agra College, RBS College, are extra than a century vintage. The SN Medical College commenced as a clinical college manner back in 1865.

The academia isn’t always impressed with the brand new appointment. Many retired teachers sense without basic changes and restructuring, the college might hold to rot and continue to be in information for loss of subject and right ambience for better education.