Telangana Inter Education department plans to boost government junior colleges enrollment

In a strategic move, which is similar to corporate junior colleges' approach, the Intermediate Education department unveiled a comprehensive plan aimed at enhancing enrollments in GJCs

Hyderabad: In a strategic move, which is similar to corporate and private junior colleges approach, the Intermediate Education department unveiled a comprehensive plan aimed at enhancing enrollments in the government junior colleges (GJCs) by at least 60 per cent in the forthcoming next academic year.

The department has rolled out a new initiative, constituting the district-wise academic monitoring cell with three academic monitoring officers, to enhance admissions in the GJCs.

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The academic monitoring officers – junior lecturers and librarians of the GJCs – have been entrusted with the job of enrolling students, particularly from the government feeder schools located in the area, into respective colleges.

During a recent meeting convened by Intermediate Education department Director Krishna Aditya, the officers have been asked to visit feeder government schools, interact with students, headmasters and parents and enlighten them about the facilities and quality free education being provided in the GJCs.

The department’s new strategy is to rival the aggressive tactics of corporate and private junior junior colleges, which so far have been capitalising on the admissions process even before Class X exams are conducted.

The corporate colleges have been long deploying their PROs, teaching and non-teaching staff to enroll Class X students. This is severely affecting enrollments in the GJCs, which are slowly losing their sheen among students and parents.

As for academic year 2024-25, the 425 GJCs recorded 83,000 enrollments. Through the extensive campaign, a target of at least 1.30 lakh enrollment is set for the colleges to achieve in the next academic year.

The department has also designed a plan to retain students and ensure that there are no dropouts. Efforts are on to seek enhancement of seats in the government welfare hostels to accommodate GJCs students.

Further, the academic monitoring officers have also been tasked to improve the pass percentage of the GJCs in the forthcoming intermediate public examinations. They are told to maintain subject-wise group, college and district wise results of the past three years besides monitoring long and frequent absentees and initiating necessary interventions to bring them back to the classrooms.

With exams around the corner, the academic monitoring officers were asked to oversee study hours twice-daily i.e., morning and evening and send reports to the head office.