FYBCOM admissions will be smooth in future — VC

Speaking on the FYBCOM admissions’ issue, BUCTU expressed its displeasure over the University’s plans to accomodate additional five students per division in FYBCOM classes, this year.

According to the college teachers, this was a totally an unacademic step, which would make the classrooms crowded and hamper effective tutoring. C R Sadasivan, president, BUCTU, informed the Vice-Chancellor that certain colleges had even admitted more number of students than the stipulated five students’ norm, charging the students for the seats and raking in considerable money in the process.

Tapati Mukhopadhyay, BUCTU general secretary, said they had appealed for urgent steps to be taken to avoid the problem of admissions from the next academic year.

Some of the suggestions by the university authorities to solve the problem include centralisation of the admission process for FYBCOM on the lines of the process of admissions in engineering colleges, holding the colleges responsible for the admissions and fixing a certain number of seats per college, etc. However, the Vice-Chancellor said that any decision on the issue would be taken only after further discussions and a proper analysis of the programme.

The issue of the Package Leave system, proposed by the UGC and the Fifth Pay Commission, which is yet to be implemented in the State, also came up for discussion.

Under this system, all the alloted leaves for college teachers would come in a package, which include eight-days’ casual leave, one earned-leave for every working month, which can be accumulated and carried over to the next academic year, 15 days’ sick-leaves per year, three years of study-leave with pay, a two-year faculty improvement programme, 135 days of maternity leave, 10 days of paternity leave, and one holiday for every three days cut in vacation.

According to Sadasivan, the Government was obliged to implement this as all the UGC notifications were binding on it. BUCTU plans to take up this matter with the Government in the future. The Vice-Chancellor promised to look into the reduced casual leave issue soon.

Another issue which came up during the talks was the proposed Shishak Bhavan, which BUCTU plans to build in the University campus. BUCTU is scheduled to donate Rs 50 lakh for this venture. The Bhavan, to be owned by the University, would mainly have an auditorium and a library.