Colleges to scrap courses with low pupil strength

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 18

The government colleges across the state will discontinue the courses/subjects in which a very low number of students have enrolled.

In a communiqué addressed to the principals of all government colleges in the state, the Haryana Principal Secretary (Higher Education Department) has maintained that the state government has decided that the courses/subjects wherein the enrolled students’ strength in the academic session 2019-20 was found to be very low would be discontinued with effect from the 2020-21 academic session.

“In case the students’ strength is less than 30 in any non-practical subject and less than 20 in any practical subject, it will be discontinued (except in new colleges),” maintains a separate communiqué.

It, however, adds that the minimum strength for music courses (vocal or instrumental) would be 15 and 10 for fine arts and Sanskrit. The state government has also reduced the workload of the college teachers, which was their longstanding demand.

The communiqué states that the teaching workload would be 24 lectures per week for the non-practical subjects and 27 lectures per week for the practical subjects.

New guidelines 

In case the students’ strength in government colleges is less than 30 in a non-practical subject and less than 20 in a practical subject, then that course will be discontinued (except in new colleges).