BANGALORE: While many government-run educational institutes face severe shortage of students or lecturers, the first grade college in Malleswaram has a different saga to narrate. Students here have classes only three hours a day as the college functions in a PU college building and does not have adequate space to accommodate all students.
Though the Department of Collegiate Education started the first grade government college next to a reputed aided college in Malleswaram last year, the government first grade college got a good number of students.
The college offers BA, BCom and BBM courses. At present, there are students in both first and second year, 80 in each class on an average. The degree college has more than 10 teaching fraternity members and there is no shortage of teaching staff.
But the problem is of accommodation.
The college which is functioning in a government PU college building is facing severe shortage of class rooms.
They were allotted six classrooms, of which three are in a different building.
“We have to shuttle between two buildings,” a second year B.Com student told The Express.
While students in any degree college in Bangalore have one hour class per subject, here it is only 45 minutes.
“Everyday, we have four periods.
Classes commence from 7 am to 10.30 am,” another student said. They have to leave the classrooms to PU students thereafter.
The college which has a library is situated inside the college administration office. However, there is no dearth of books for students and teachers.
Then MLA M R Seetharam, who inaugurated the college in August 2007, had assured of adequate funds for creating infrastructure in the college, including a computer laboratory with 10 computers.
He had also agreed to grant of Rs 10 lakh for the construction of the building under the MLA’s local area development fund.
But an under-construction building has been left untouched for almost two years and the MLA’s promise has remained unfulfilled.
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