Senior BJP Leader and Punjab BJP Investor Cell Chief, Advocate Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal today unfolded a major racket by Private Polytechnic Colleges in Punjab in association with officials of Punjab StateTechnical Education and Industrial Training Board and All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

Grewal stated that AICTE initiated a scheme to run Second Shift of Polytechnic Institution in an existing Polytechnic Institution. Under this scheme, a Polytechnic Institute could provide courses in Morning and Evening Shifts with existing infrastructure and additional faculty. Grewal  added that as per AICTE norms the timings for morning or 1st shift were defined as 7 am to 1.30 pm and 2nd shift were defined as 2 pm to 8.30 pm but most of the private polytechnics such as RIMT Polytechnic, Mandi Gobindgarh which are approved for second shift are blatantly violating the norms by running both the shifts from 9.30 am to 5 pm. Thus, the same infrastructure and faculty is used to serve double the strength of students in single shift.

Further under the scheme, as per AICTE norms an additional Vice Principal or Deputy Director, in addition to the full time Director/Principal of first shift was to be appointed. Norms further require at least 50% additional teaching faculty should be appointed for second shift and 25% visiting faculty should be engaged and remaining 25% faculty should be utilized from the existing first year faculty. But these Private Polytechnics are miserably overloading existing infrastructure and faculty to serve double the strength of student in single shift in order to milk the institution to please their lust for money. Similarly, as per norms at least 50% additional non teaching staff should be appointed for second shift and 50% existing staff of the first shift may be utilized.  But these Private Polytechnics are openly flouting these norms so much so that they are not even paying additional 50% of Basic Pay + DA for this additional assignment to the existing 25% teaching and 50% non teaching faculty as allowed under the scheme, keep aside appointment of new faculty. Grewal added that the Salary transferred to the Bank accounts of the faculty can be verified to establish the same.

 “The overall intent of this scheme was to reduce cost of education per student, optimal utilization of resources and to bring the infrastructure of the Polytechnics at par with engineering colleges but murky deals of the Promoters of these Private Polytechnic colleges, officials of AICTE and Punjab State Technical Education and Industrial Training Board have been a spoilsport thereby spoiling the careers of the students”, stated Grewal. He added that he will write to Mr.Mahesh Aggarwal ACB, Central Bureau of Investigation, Sector 30 A, Chandigarh, Mr. Sumedh Singh Saini, Director Vigilance Bureau, Sector 17, Chandigarh and Mr. Gurbachan Singh Joint Director, Intelligence Bureau, Chandigarh to investigate the culprits and to put a full stop on commercialization of education which was once considered a social work. At this time Ramandeep Singh PS,Babbu Vijay Mall Doraha, Ajneet Singh, Chamkaur Singh Pandher, Ashok Garg, Surjit Singh Sita Gogna, Gurmeet Singh Grewal and large number of BJP Investor Cell workers were present.  

Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal
Punjab State President,  Bharatiya Janata Party Investor Cell.
Former Punjab State President,  BJYM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha,PB)
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