Students suffer as 10 departmens at MDS University running sans teachers

JAIPUR: The Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati (MDS) University in Ajmer is facing a severe shortage of teachers. Here, ten departments, including those of mass communication, law, zoology, botany etc, are running without teachers. The gravity of the situation can be understood from the fact that the varsity has just 18 teachers in its 22 departments. Currently, 1,300 students are studying at the varsity.
The administration has approached several leaders from the district, including - Vasudev Devnani (education minister), Anita Bhadel (minister for women and child development), former cabinet minister and Ajmer MP Sanwar Lal Jat, Rajya Sabha MP Bhupendra Yadav and former BJP vice president Onkar Singh Lakhawat - but its pleas have fallen on deaf ears.Other departments which are running without teachers are - remote sensing, education, history, political science, business administration, ABST and Hindi.
It is shameful that the university, despite not having a single faculty, has admitted students in these departments. The authorities here are running the show through guest faculties. Earlier, higher education minister Kalicharan Saraf had told TOI that if the university administration would write to him, then the government would certainly issue 'recruitment orders'. Countering the claims made by Saraf, a senior university official, requesting anonymity, said that they have shot off several letters to the higher education department explaining the grim situation, but no action has been taken in the matter.
Ironically, the government has sanctioned 22 posts, but many of them were for departments like sociology, geography and history. Here again, the university has requested the government to sanction posts for departments like remote sensing, population studies, journalism and yoga. "We have to beg before the state government for the recruitment. They have sanctioned posts for generic courses which are available in 99% of our affiliated colleges," said a university official.