Confusion prevails in two state universities as the Haryana Government has failed to issue a notification about the affiliation status of 165 educational BEd colleges.Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma told the Assembly on August 29 that all B.Ed colleges affiliated with Kurukshetra University would be restored to it.However, sources in Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (CRSU), Jind, said the university was managing BEd colleges, including those earlier affiliated with KU.“There were certain media reports that more than 160 BEd colleges affiliated to the upcoming CRSU might be taken back. But we are smoothly working with over 520 B.Ed colleges of KU, MDU and Chaudhary Devi Lal University (CDLU), Sirsa,” said an official .Prof Rajneesh Sharma, Dean of Colleges, KU, told The Tribune today that the university sent a letter to the Director, Higher Education, last month to clear air about the affiliation but the communication had failed to evoke any response.“We are waiting for a response from the state government. As of now, KU has affiliation of only four BEd colleges enjoying minority status and its on-campus education college ,” said Sharma.Meanwhile, sources at KU said the state government had acted in haste by giving all BEd colleges to the Jind university that was in its infancy and then announcing to reverse the decision.“Both universities want affiliation of BEd colleges only to gain crores of rupees in terms of annual affiliation fees and other charges. Scores of these privately managed educational colleges have compromised quality of education. KU has to spare a sizable manpower for annual inspections and allied affairs on not so productive private institutes over which the affiliating universities have hardly any control,” said a senior faculty member.Another KU functionary said the BEd colleges should be given the freedom of affiliation with any university.
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