Bengaluru: 547 state-run PU colleges don't have principal
Bengaluru: The results of government PU colleges in the state are extremely miserable. One of the many reasons for this is that, of the 1,229 government PU colleges, 547 of them don't have principals. The revelation has come at a time when the state is already grappling with ‘headless' first-grade degree colleges, a situation that has stayed the same for almost four years now.
According a BangaloreMirror report the PUE department received data from all district deputy directors across the state as on April 30. On May 16, the PU Education department director sent out a notice to all officials in the department and PU colleges, asking them to confirm if this was true.
Lecturers in these PU colleges, meanwhile, say that administration has become a challenge with no one at the helm to take decisions.
A lecturer from a city government PU college said: "For every small thing, we have to consult teachers in the college. There's no one to take decisive action. How long does it take for the department to fill the post?"
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BJP, JD(S) leaders helped win Channapatna bypoll: D K Shivakumar
Ramangara (PTI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday hinted at cracks and squabbling within the BJP and the JD(S), as he gave credit to the leaders of these parties for the defeat of JD(S) candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy in the Channapatna assembly bypoll.
Congress candidate C P Yogeeshwara won in Channapatna bypoll with a margin of 25,413 votes against his nearest rival and NDA candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy, as results were announced on Saturday.
The Congress party swept all the three assembly constituencies in Karnataka, namely Channapatna, Sandur and Shiggaon, which went for bypolls.
Nikhil Kumaraswamy is the son of Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy and grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda. In September last year, JD(S) joined the NDA led by BJP.
“Many people from across the parties have helped us in this election (Channapatna). Congress had only 16,000 votes in the previous assembly election. It increased in the Lok Sabha election,” Shivakumar told reporters here.
According to him, many people from the JD(S) and the BJP supported the Congress. “If the BJP and the JD(S) leaders had not supported us directly or indirectly, we wouldn’t have got so many votes. I congratulate them,” Shivakumar, who is also the Congress state president, said.
He quipped that the JD(S), which had 19 seats in the Karnataka Assembly, has now reduced to 18.
Hailing the electorate, the Deputy CM said this was people’s verdict in favour of C P Yogeeshwara to develop Channapatna constituency.
There was no immediate reaction from the BJP or the JD(S) on it.
