Now, flying squads to check attendance in ETT colleges

Now, flying squads to check attendance in ETT colleges
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Jammu, May 31
From this year onwards students, who get admission to ETT colleges in Jammu and Kashmir, will have to attend classes regularly, as the J&K State Board of School Education (BoSE) has formed special flying squads to keep a check on absenteeism in these colleges and institutes.

After facing the flak from all corners, the BoSE authorities have now constituted 30 special flying squads comprising board officials, principals and teachers of various schools, colleges and institutes to keep a check on absenteeism in the ETT colleges/institutes.

Nearly 40,000 students from neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana take admission to colleges and institutes here as there is virtually no need to attend classes. Shockingly, the board officials are also aware of this practice but no action had been taken in this regard. “We are very much aware about mismanagement and corrupt practices going on in the ETT institutes and colleges in our state. So, we have decided to make surprise visits to such institutes during normal days and wherever the flying squads find less attendance of students, they will have the power to de-affiliate such institutes immediately,” said Prof Javed Iqbal Khatib, Joint Secretary (Secrecy), BoSE.

He said the surprise visits would be conducted on a routine basis and the college owners, principals and other staff members had been directed to strictly follow the norms fixed by the BoSE or face action.

Khatib added that, “The agent system is also giving a bad name to the board, which we are also trying to control from this year.

Courtesy: The Tribune