Hyderabad, Dec. 14: Several B.Ed colleges are facing closure due to poor enrolment. Neither the mega recruitment of the District Selection Committee nor the relaxation of norms for admissions, have succeeded in attracting the students to take up the B.Ed course.
More than 10,000 seats in over 550 B.Ed colleges in the convener’s quota are vacant, not to mention the management seats for which there are no takers. A dozen B.Ed colleges in the city and its suburbs have been put for sale.
Keeping in view the plight of the colleges, the government has exempted students from appearing for Edcet entrance examination, which is mandatory for admission into B.Ed. The government had issued four GOs on December 12, allowing 20 colleges to accept students irrespective of whether or not they had appeared for the Edcet.
Though the situation is better in the Osmania University region, colleges under the Andhra and Sri Venkateshwara universities are reeling from the crisis. "We expected good res-ponse from the students this year following the announcement of the DSC to fill up over 54,000 posts," said Mr K. Shamsunder Rao, principal, S.V.R. B.Ed college. "Moreover, the IT and ITES sectors, which attract most of the candidates, have been going through a lean patch. None of these worked for us."
"Colleges located in major cities are also facing crisis. Colleges in the rural areas are the worst hit and are set for closure," said Mr G. Kripakar, correspondent of a city-based college.
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